"Sleeping" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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熟睡 shú shuì asleep / sleeping soundly
安眠药 ān mián yào sleeping pill / CL:粒[li4]
睡袋 shuì dài sleeping bag
卧房 wò fáng bedroom / a sleeping compartment (on a train)
睡姿 shuì zī sleeping posture
睡美人 Shuì měi rén Sleeping Beauty
凉席 liáng xí summer sleeping mat (e.g. of woven split bamboo) / CL:張|张[zhang1],領|领[ling3]
蒙胧 méng lóng drowsy / half-asleep / half sleeping, half waking
酣畅 hān chàng unrestrained / cheerful lack of inhibition, esp. for drinking or sleeping / to drink with abandon
酣暢 hān chàng unrestrained / cheerful lack of inhibition, esp. for drinking or sleeping / to drink with abandon
卧车 wò chē (railroad) sleeping car
睡相 shuì xiàng sleeping posture
落枕 lào zhěn to have a stiff neck after sleeping / (of the head) to touch the pillow
断袖之癖 duàn xiù zhī pǐ lit. cut sleeve (idiom) / fig. euphemism for homosexuality, originating from History of Western Han 漢書|汉书: emperor Han Aidi (real name Liu Xin) was in bed with his lover Dong Xian, and had to attend a court audience that morning. Not wishing to awaken Dong Xian, who was sleeping with his head resting on the emperor's long robe sleeve, Aidi used a knife to cut off the lower half of his sleeve.
轏 zhàn chariot for sleeping and conveyance
宰予昼寝 Zǎi Yǔ zhòu qǐn Zai Yu sleeps by day (idiom) / refers to story in Analects of Confucius remonstrating bitterly with his student for sleeping during lectures
昏睡病 hūn shuì bìng sleeping sickness / African trypanosomiasis / see also 非洲錐蟲病|非洲锥虫病[Fei1 zhou1 zhui1 chong2 bing4]
棕绷 zōng bēng rectangular frame with a palm fiber mat woven across it (placed on a bed frame as the sleeping surface)
卧舱 wò cāng sleeping cabin on a boat or train
卧龙 wò lóng sleeping dragon / (fig.) a person of outstanding talent who lives in obscurity
迷魂香 mí hún xiāng a kind of sleeping gas or smoke used by thieves to incapacitate victims
非洲锥虫病 Fēi zhōu zhuī chóng bìng sleeping sickness / African trypanosomiasis
秘密同伙 mì mì tòng huǒ secret partner / sleeping partner / silent partner
认床 rèn chuáng to have difficulties sleeping in a bed other than one's own
床笫 chuáng zǐ bed and bamboo sleeping mat / (fig.) bed as a place for intimacy
隔壁老王 gé bì Lǎo Wáng Mr Wang from next door (term used jocularly to refer to a neighbor who is supposedly sleeping with one's wife)
酣梦 hān mèng sweet dream / sleeping soundly
瞌睡虫 kē shuì chóng mythological insect that makes people doze off / (fig.) drowsiness / (coll.) person who loves sleeping / sleepaholic
接盘 jiē pán (of an entrepreneur) to buy up a struggling business / (finance) to snap up shares sold off by others / (neologism) (slang) to take as a girlfriend a woman who was dumped by her ex for sleeping around
靴子落地 xuē zi luò dì lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom) / fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor)
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