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词汇 unsleeping
释义

Definition of unsleeping in English:

unsleeping

adjectiveʌnˈsliːpɪŋˌənˈslipɪŋ
  • Not or never sleeping.

    不在睡觉的;不眠的

    much of that night she lay unsleeping

    那夜她几乎一宿未眠。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I know that in the back of the unsleeping part of your mind you were attracted to the heat of my body ’, I grinned.
    • Then they could have earned the sort of unsleeping invigilation that has recently brought Marilyn Meiser, a 75-year-old retired Wisconsin schoolteacher, a fine of $1, 000 for taking a bicycling holiday in Cuba.
    • But this does not mean that its unsleeping care is diminished in magnitude or influence.
    • Clinton's unsleeping critics attributed the confusion to a leadership vacuum, to the inability of a domestically oriented President to frame foreign policy issues forcefully.
    • Laxman is telling politicians, bureaucrats, ministers and others that his common man is the unseen but unsleeping watchdog, telling the world at large of what is going on.
    • There would be no escape - he would rule from Urbs Caelis with an unsleeping guard.
    • The unsleeping African night is filled with sounds - the song of running water; the calls of nightjars; the strident music of the frogs.
    • But any readers wishing to set to work on Goering's negligee should beware the unsleeping Mattel legal team, although the legal eagles did suffer a setback last August.
    • During the cold war, it was often said that the United States faced an unsleeping foe that was ‘godless’.
    • But, as a record of George Eliot's unrealized intention, I would rather like the anomalous punch-ladle to remain as a mark of her artistic, unsleeping, conscience.
    • Forming the first line of defence which separates the civilized world from utter chaos, the warriors and their allies keep an unsleeping eye on the passes, ever alert for any activity.
    Synonyms
    watchful, on the lookout, observant, sharp-eyed, keen-eyed, gimlet-eyed, eagle-eyed, hawk-eyed, with eyes like a hawk, with one's eyes open, keeping one's eyes peeled, keeping one's eyes skinned, attentive, paying attention, alert, on the alert, on one's toes, on the qui vive

Derivatives

  • unsleepingly

  • adverb
    • They had been told that this lake was animated by a sinister spirit which brooded unsleepingly, malevolently, over the three great arms of that majestic water.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They imagine they are withstanding forces that unsleepingly work against the true Church of Christ.
      • Despotism unsleepingly pursues everyone it fears - and it fears everyone.
      • We are unsleepingly watching over the progress in digital image and international marketing.
      • It was unsleepingly pursuing nuclear materials in places like Niger as we can now, I think, adequately demonstrate.

Rhymes

safekeeping, sweeping

Definition of unsleeping in US English:

unsleeping

adjectiveˌənˈslipɪŋˌənˈslēpiNG
  • Not or never sleeping.

    不在睡觉的;不眠的

    much of that night she lay unsleeping

    那夜她几乎一宿未眠。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Clinton's unsleeping critics attributed the confusion to a leadership vacuum, to the inability of a domestically oriented President to frame foreign policy issues forcefully.
    • But any readers wishing to set to work on Goering's negligee should beware the unsleeping Mattel legal team, although the legal eagles did suffer a setback last August.
    • I know that in the back of the unsleeping part of your mind you were attracted to the heat of my body ’, I grinned.
    • Forming the first line of defence which separates the civilized world from utter chaos, the warriors and their allies keep an unsleeping eye on the passes, ever alert for any activity.
    • Then they could have earned the sort of unsleeping invigilation that has recently brought Marilyn Meiser, a 75-year-old retired Wisconsin schoolteacher, a fine of $1, 000 for taking a bicycling holiday in Cuba.
    • Laxman is telling politicians, bureaucrats, ministers and others that his common man is the unseen but unsleeping watchdog, telling the world at large of what is going on.
    • The unsleeping African night is filled with sounds - the song of running water; the calls of nightjars; the strident music of the frogs.
    • There would be no escape - he would rule from Urbs Caelis with an unsleeping guard.
    • During the cold war, it was often said that the United States faced an unsleeping foe that was ‘godless’.
    • But, as a record of George Eliot's unrealized intention, I would rather like the anomalous punch-ladle to remain as a mark of her artistic, unsleeping, conscience.
    • But this does not mean that its unsleeping care is diminished in magnitude or influence.
    Synonyms
    watchful, on the lookout, observant, sharp-eyed, keen-eyed, gimlet-eyed, eagle-eyed, hawk-eyed, with eyes like a hawk, with one's eyes open, keeping one's eyes peeled, keeping one's eyes skinned, attentive, paying attention, alert, on the alert, on one's toes, on the qui vive
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