sleep·less /ˈsliːpləs/ adjectiveadj 1 a sleepless night a night when you are unable to sleep 不眠之夜 Adrian spent a sleepless night wondering what to do. 阿德里安一夜未眠,在想该怎么办。
a sleepless night• He lives with them every day, and sweats them out on many a sleepless night.• She had plenty of time to think it over during a sleepless night, and on the train in the morning.• His eyes were red-rimmed, their gilded brightness dulled from a sleepless night, and perhaps also from weeping.• The four travellers passed a sleepless night, each thinking of the gift Oz had promised to bestow on him.• She couldn't even feel resentful that he slept so peacefully after she had suffered a sleepless night of angst.• After a sleepless night Stavrogin sets forth.• He'd had a sleepless night thinking over how badly things had gone.• His social conscience, dulled by a sleepless night, was now barely alive. 2 unable to sleep 失眠的,无法入睡的 She lay sleepless for hours, worrying. 她忧心忡忡地躺了几个小时都无法入睡。
—sleeplessly adverbadv
—sleeplessness noun [uncountableU]