The light was at his back, leaving his face in the shadow, but shone squarely on the sleeper's head. "I do not envy his headache when he wakes up," thought Maurice. He had detected the vinous odor of the sleeper's breath. "These headaches, while they last, are bad things. I know; I've had 'em. I wonder," lifting the stein and draining it, "who the duffer was who said that getting drunk was fun? His name has slipped my memory; no matter." He set down the stein and banged the lid. The sleeper stirred.英文原著 · 《The Puppet Crown》
"Under a great spruce-tree--where the ground was soft and dry, OLD-man slept. The joy that thrilled creation disturbed him not, although the Sun was near. The bird-people looked at the sleeper in wonder, but the Pine squirrel climbed the great spruce-tree with a pine-cone in his mouth. Quickly he ran out on the limb that spread over OLD-man, and dropped the cone on the sleeper's face. Then he scolded OLD-man, saying: 'Get up--get up--lazy one--lazy one--get up--get up.'英文原著 · 《Indian Why Stories》
The sleeper is turned over. The turn was a mistake. He was before, it appears, on his most agreeable side. The camp rises in indignation. The sleeper sits up in bewilderment. Before he can go off again, two or three others have preceded him. They are all alike. You never can judge what a person is when he is awake.英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-3》
"Up!" said he to himself, "thou sleeper! Thou noontide sleeper! Well then, up, ye old legs! It is time and more than time; many a good stretch of road is still awaiting you--英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
Meanwhile the winter threw off the last slumbrous mood of autumn, as a sleeper starts from a dream. A fortnight was gone, and still no message came from the absent leader. One shore was restive, uneasy; the other confident, mocking. Between the two, Rome Stetson waited his chance at the mill.英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
"I've seen it there before," continued Raffles. "He never was a good sleeper, and his ears reach to the street. I wouldn't like to say how often I was chased by him in the small hours! I believe he knew who it was toward the end, but Nab was not the man to accuse you of what he couldn't prove."英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
He's a soviet sleeper-agent who doesn't realize the Cold War is over.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
By the way, I have a doctor who can get rid of one of those "olds." All right. Well, I guess I can set you up on the sleeper sofa.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
Oh. Honey, I'm sorry. We can't help you there, because we're cuddly sleepers.美剧 · 《Friends》
- I thought you were cuddly sleepers. - No.美剧 · 《Friends》