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词汇 sleeping
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sleeping adj.

c. 1300, present-participle adjective from sleep (v.). Sleeping Beauty (1729) is Perrault's La belle au bois dormant. Sleeping has been used since late 14c. to indicate diseases marked by morbid conditions.

It is ill wakyng of a sleapyng dogge. [Heywood, 1562]
It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake. [Chaucer, c. 1385]

sleeping n.

"fact, state, or condition of sleeping or being asleep," c. 1300, verbal noun from sleep (v.). Sleeping-pill is attested from 1660s (sleeping-drink from 1560s; sleeping powder by 1709); sleeping-bag, of skin or fur, used by explorers in frozen regions, is from 1850; sleeping sickness as a specific African tropical disease is recorded by 1875 (earlier sleepy sickness, 1803).

updated on December 23, 2022

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