slumber英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A very light state of sleep, almost awake.

— Fast asleep? It is no matter; / Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.
A very light state of sleep, almost awake.; A very heavy state of sleep. broadly
A state of ignorance or inaction. figuratively

— Marcel Duchamp's urinal and readymades seemed in the beginning to be insider jokes or jokelike paradoxes meant to awaken people from their aesthetic slumbers.
The snooze button on an alarm clock. rare

动词 v.

To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake. intransitive

— He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
To be inactive or negligent. intransitive
To lay to sleep. obsolete,transitive

— slumber his conscience
To stun; to stupefy. obsolete,transitive

— Then vp he tooke the slombred sencelesse corse.

词形变化

slumbers plural slumbre alternative,obsolete slumbers present,singular,third-person slumbering participle,present slumbered participle,past slumbered past slumbre alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词

enslumber slumbercoach slumber coach slumberful slumberland slumberless slumberlike slumberous slumber room slumbersome slumberwear slumbery aslumber slumberer

词源

词源 1

From Middle English slombren, slomren, frequentative of Middle English slummen, slumen (“to doze”), probably from Middle English slume (“slumber”), from Old English slūma, from Proto-Germanic *slūm- (“slack, loose, limp, flabby”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“loose, limp, flabby”). Cognate with West Frisian slommerje, slûmerje (“to slumber”), Dutch sluimeren (“to slumber”), German schlummern (“to slumber, doze”), Swedish slummer (“to slumber”). By surface analysis, sloom + -er.

词源 2

From Middle English slombren, slomren, frequentative of Middle English slummen, slumen (“to doze”), probably from Middle English slume (“slumber”), from Old English slūma, from Proto-Germanic *slūm- (“slack, loose, limp, flabby”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“loose, limp, flabby”). Cognate with West Frisian slommerje, slûmerje (“to slumber”), Dutch sluimeren (“to slumber”), German schlummern (“to slumber, doze”), Swedish slummer (“to slumber”). By surface analysis, sloom + -er.