- 1夢遊的人
A sleepwalker is a person who gets out of bed and walks around while they are still asleep. Their eyes may be open, which is why it looks so strange — they are not awake in the ordinary way, they may do simple things like go to the door, and in the morning they often remember nothing.
A sleepwalker夢遊的人 is是 a person who gets out of bed and walks around一個會下床走來走去的人 while they are still asleep而人其實還在睡著 Their眼睛 eyes may be open可能是張開的, which is why it looks so strange這就是為什麼看起來這麼奇怪—— they他們 are not awake in the ordinary way並不是一般意義上醒著, they may do simple things like go to the door可能會做一些簡單的事像走到門口, and in the morning而到了早上 they often remember nothing常常什麼都不記得
The condition is called sleepwalking; it is most common in children, and many grow out of it. You should not shake them hard or make a drama of it; people who know the child usually speak softly and guide them back to bed.
The condition這種狀況 is called sleepwalking叫做夢遊; it它 is most common in children在小孩身上最常見, and many grow out of it很多人長大就好了 You你 should not shake them hard千萬不要用力搖他們 or make a drama of it也不要大驚小怪; people who know the child認識這孩子的人 usually speak softly and guide them back to bed通常會輕聲說話,把他們帶回床上
Though actually, people also use sleepwalker in a loose, joking way about someone who looks half-asleep at school or who moves through the day without thinking. That is not the real meaning. The real meaning is the night-time one.
Though actually不過其實, people大家 also use sleepwalker in a loose, joking way也會用sleepwalker來開玩笑 about someone who looks half-asleep at school形容某人在學校看起來昏昏欲睡, or who moves through the day without thinking或整天渾渾噩噩地過 That那 is not the real meaning不是真正的意思 The real meaning真正的意思 is the night-time one是晚上那個夢遊的意思
core核心畫面
組成sleep (you are not awake) + walker (a person who walks); or sleepwalk + -er (a person who does that).
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sleepwalkernoun
- 1
A somnambulist; one who walks, or is active, while asleep.
- Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
- Ashley looked dull as a sleepwalker and, as he came to her and put his hand upon her arm, he spoke like a sleepwalker.
- 2
archaicOne in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep; someone in a hypnotic trance.
- Though the sleepwalker sat with closely bandaged and wadded eyes, and his back to the grimacing part of the company, he described everything they were doing with the most comic humour, and he asked, 'What in the world is that gentleman in the chair making such faces for, and what is he giving himself such trouble about? […]"
- But the sleepwalker does much that is correct . The magnetic somnambulists are not dreaming ~ such that there is an accidental connection of images;~rather they know of themselves what they are, but as feeling beings they know this through their genius.
- 3
A person from whom a voodoo practitioner (a bocor) has taken over control of their mind, making them a zombie who must do the bocor's bidding.
- But don't zombies exist in real life— such as the Haitian zombies called “sleepwalkers" ?
- These were not the rotting corpses of the modern zombie apocalypse; rather they were laborers and sleepwalkers that served their masters dutifully.
- 4
One who goes though life in a state of obliviousness.
- Perhaps he should have killed the white man, who, after all, is the dangerous one, the sleepwalker, the blind man . Getting rid of him would have protected " the higher interests of society " on three counts : It would have made this dreamer and sleepwalker "pay the price" for refusing to awaken to the truth of human identity; it would have destroyed the dreamer's "dream world," which excludes blacks; and it would have carried out the narrator's " responsibility," as "invisible victim," for " the fate of all"—for those both within and without the sleepwalker's dream world.
- These lines, stylistically reminiscent of Dante's guided tour of damned souls in the Inferno and written in a similar terza rima meterical pattern, survey the human condition, seeing hellish lineaments written on the faces of human souls—not because of any particular sin but as the after-effect of a staining caused by submitting to the triumph of life, suggesting the notion of existence as a process of unabating lapse and disfiguration, a hopeless enterprise where human action, bereft of beauteous shape, has not meaning, and all are, or soon will be, sleepwalkers oblivious to poetic truth.
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