英语词源
- sleepy (adj.)
- early 13c. from sleep (n.) + -y (2). Perhaps in Old English but not recorded. Old English had slæpor, slæpwerig in the sense "sleepy;" slæpnes "sleepiness." Similar formation in Old High German slafag. Of places, from 1851 (Irving's Sleepy Hollow is from 1820). Sleepy-head is from 1570s. Related: Sleepily; sleepiness.
权威例句
- 1. She was still tired and sleepy when he woke her.
- 他叫醒她的时候，她仍然又累又困。
- 2. All of a sudden she didn't look sleepy any more.
- 她突然看起来一点都不困了。
- 3. Sleepy-eyed commuters were wending their way to work.
- 睡眼惺忪的通勤族拖着沉重的步子上班去。
- 4. I was beginning to feel amazingly sleepy.
- 我开始感到异常困倦。
- 5. I feel terribly sleepy all at once.
- 我突然觉得特别困。