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睡觉…者;睡眠…的人 You can use sleeper to indicate how well someone sleeps. For example, if someone is a light sleeper, they are easily woken up.
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I'm a very light sleeper and I can hardly get any sleep at all...
我睡觉很轻，几乎就没睡着。
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Poor sleepers take longer to fall asleep than good sleepers.
与睡眠好的人相比，睡眠不好的人要花更长的时间才能入睡。
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(英国英语的)卧铺车厢,卧铺铺位（在美国英语中，sleeping car 指卧铺车厢，roomette 则指一个卧铺的铺位) In British English, a sleeper is a carriage on a train containing beds for passengers to sleep in at night, or a section of such a carriage. The usual American words are sleeping car for the carriage and roomette for the section.
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(铁路上的)枕木 Railway sleepers are large heavy beams that support the rails of a railway track.
in AM, use 美国英语用 ties
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出乎意料的成功者;爆冷门的人(或事物) If you describe someone or something as a sleeper, you mean that they unexpectedly become successful, often after a long period of being inactive or unknown.
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...Menno Meyjes, a young Dutch writer, who had had his first success with the sleeper 'The Children's Crusade'.
凭借着《童子军》的意外走红而首尝成功的年轻荷兰作家——曼诺·梅耶斯
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1. a rester who is sleeping
- synonym： slumberer
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2. 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
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3. an unexpected achiever of success;
- "the winner was a true sleeper--no one expected him to get it"
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4. one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track;
- "the British call a railroad tie a sleeper"
- synonym： tie，railroad tie，crosstie
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5. a passenger car that has berths for sleeping
- synonym： sleeping car，wagon-lit
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6. a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed
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7. tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
- synonym： sleeper goby
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8. an unexpected hit;
- "that movie was the sleeper of the summer"
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- 1.不受注意的强手
- 1. He stepped out of his first-class sleeper on the night express from London.
- 他从由伦敦开来的午夜快车的头等卧铺车厢里走出来。
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. I usually go up to London on the sleeper.
- 我一般都乘卧车去伦敦。
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- 3. Please don't make any noise—my mother's a very light sleeper.
- 请安静——我母亲睡觉很轻。
来自《简明英汉词典》
