賴床可能是很多人一天當中最幸福的時刻。

當你說“I can stay in bed on weekends!”，老外可能會問你What will you do when stay in bed?

原來stay in bed隻是表達了“在”床上。那"賴床"應該怎麼說呢？

睡懶覺

When you sleep in, you remain in bed until later than usual. This is what we usually do on Saturdays and Sundays, provided we get the chance.

當你sleep in時，你在床上呆到比平時晚的時間。如果有機會，我們通常在周六和周日時這麼做。

例句：

I was too tired to get up and go to school, so I just slept in.

我太累了起不來去上學，所以就直接賴床了。

Sunday mornings are for sleeping in.

星期天的早晨是用來睡懶覺的。

I could just as well sleep in and nobody would notice my absence.

我可以睡個懶覺，沒人會注意到我不在。

“回籠覺”

回籠覺unprotected sleep

什麼叫unprotected sleep?

字面上理解是無保護的睡眠或風險睡眠，指的是turning off your alarm clock and immediately going back to sleep; risking not waking up for a job, class, or other daily task。冒着工作、上班等遲到的風險關掉鬧鐘睡回籠覺，這是不是很多人每天生活的真實寫照?

例句：

Don't risk being late for work due to unprotected sleep.

别為了睡回籠覺上班遲到。

“睡過頭”

“睡過頭”是sleep over還是oversleep？

sleep over

to sleep in someone else's home for a night

在别人家過夜，留宿

例句：

My niece is sleeping over on Friday night.

我侄女禮拜五晚上要來過夜。

真正“睡過頭”的英文是oversleep，保持睡覺這個動作過長時間：

to sleep for longer than you intended to and so wake up late

睡過頭，睡得過久

例句：

I missed the bus this morning because I overslept again.

今天早上我誤了公共汽車，因為我又睡過頭了。

sleep late是什麼意思？

sleep late不是“睡得晚”，而是“睡到很晚才起床”，和get up late, sleep in意思一樣。

sleep并不是“去睡覺”的意思，它表示睡覺的狀态。例如“睡得好”就是sleep well,“睡得少”就是sleep little。

“我今天晚上會早點睡”不是I'll sleep early tonight，而是I'll go to bed early tonight。

“昨天我很晚才睡”不是I slept late last night，而是I went to bed late last night。

（來源：語言茶座公衆号 編輯：yaning）

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