sleepy
英 ['sliːpɪ]
美 ['slipi]
英語の語源
- sleepy (adj.)
- early 13c. from sleep (n.) + -y (2). Perhaps in Old English but not recorded. Old English had sl?por, sl?pwerig in the sense "sleepy;" sl?pnes "sleepiness." Similar formation in Old High German slafag. Of places, from 1851 (Irving's Sleepy Hollow is from 1820). Sleepy-head is from 1570s. Related: Sleepily; sleepiness.
例文
- 1. She was still tired and sleepy when he woke her.
- 彼が彼女を起こしたとき、彼女はまだ疲れて眠かった。
- 2.All of a sudden she didn 't look sleepy any more.
- 彼女は急に眠くなくなったように見えた。
- 3. Sleepy -eyed commuters were wending their way to work.
- 寝ぼけた通勤族が重い足取りを引きずって通勤している。
- 4.I was beginning to feel amazingly sleepy .
- 私は異常な眠気を感じ始めた。
- 5.I feel terribly sleepy all at once.
- 急に眠くなった。