Word · Frequency #11298
Fully loadedsleeper
睡眠者；睡着的人
a person who is sleeping
- 1.
Someone who sleeps.
睡觉的人。
- 2.
A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.
地板中与下方搁栅和上方地板均垂直的结构梁。
- 3.
a rester who is sleeping
正在睡觉的人
- 4.
That which lies dormant, as a law.
处于休眠状态的事物(如法律)。
- 5.
A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
船底的重型地板木。
- 6.
a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal
潜伏在敌国的间谍、破坏者或恐怖分子,作为守法公民生活,直到接到预定信号
- 7.
A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
隐蔽生活在社区,待预谋信号激活的间谍、破坏分子或恐怖分子；可能是潜伏小组的成员。
- 8.
The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
桶垛的最底层。
- 9.
an unexpected achiever of success
意外成功者
- 10.
A small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.
防止穿孔愈合的小耳环；初戴耳环。
- 11.
A railway sleeping car.
铁路卧铺车厢。
- 12.
A sleeper hold.
绞颈锁(勒颈)。
- 13.
Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
经过一段时间后意外取得成功的事物。
- 14.
Any of family Odontobutidae of goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish.
沙塘鳢科底栖淡水鱼,类似虾虎鱼。
- 15.
A nurse shark (family Ginglymostomatidae).
护士鲨(铰口鲨科)。
- 16.
A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.
一种连体睡衣,尤其儿童穿的,覆盖全身包括脚。
- 17.
A pod or similar device containing a person in cryosleep.
装有冷冻休眠者的舱或类似装置。
睡觉的人。；地板中与下方搁栅和上方地板均垂直的结构梁。；正在睡觉的人；处于休眠状态的事物(如法律)。；船底的重型地板木。
In use
The baby is a heavy sleeper, so the fireworks did not wake her.
She is such a light sleeper that a dripping tap can disturb her.
The inn has a quiet wing for sleepers who want an early night.
the winner was a true sleeper--no one expected him to get it
be a [adjective] sleeper
常用 light、heavy、sound 等形容词修饰 sleeper，说明睡眠的深浅。
He is a heavy sleeper and rarely wakes up at night.
他是一个睡得很沉的人，夜里很少醒。
there are [number] sleepers in [place]
sleeper 表示“睡觉的人”时是可数名词，可用 there be 句型表达某处有若干人在睡觉。
There were three sleepers in the room.
房间里有三个睡着的人。
Connections
Collocations
- light sleeper
- 睡眠浅的人
- My roommate is a light sleeper, so I walk quietly when I come in.我的室友睡眠很浅，所以我进来时都轻轻地走。
- heavy sleeper
- 睡得沉的人
- He's a heavy sleeper and can sleep through a fire alarm.他睡觉很沉，连火警警报都吵不醒。
- sleeper train
- 卧铺列车
- We took the sleeper train from Paris to Madrid.我们乘坐从巴黎到马德里的卧铺列车。
- railway sleeper
- 铁路枕木
- They had to replace several railway sleepers after the storm.暴风雨过后，他们不得不更换几根铁路枕木。
- sleeper berth
- 卧铺铺位
- A sleeper berth costs extra on this route.这条线路上的卧铺铺位需要额外付费。
Idioms & figurative uses
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想：sleep（睡）加 -er（表人），sleeper 就是“睡眠者”；再想火车卧铺上的睡眠者躺在枕木上，sleeper 也指枕木/卧铺。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：日常对话、睡眠习惯描述 表示“睡觉的人”时，sleeper 为中性词，通常用于日常对话或描述睡眠习惯，如 light sleeper（浅眠者）、heavy sleeper（沉睡者）。正式场合也可使用，但无特殊文体色彩。
Pronunciation & Spelling
keeper, deeper, sweeper and cheaper rhyme with sleeper because they all end in /ipɚ/; note cheaper is spelled -eaper. Be careful: sleep and steep look similar (spelled -eep) but are pronounced /slip/ and /stip/ without the final /ɚ/, so they do not rhyme with sleeper.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.