fall asleep

英語

fall asleep (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 falls asleep，現在分詞 falling asleep，過去式 fell asleep，過去分詞 fallen asleep)

睡著，入睡
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, 章號 II, 出自 Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, 出版於 1915, →OCLC:
  
  She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
(比喻義) 麻木，麻痺
My left leg has fallen asleep!
我的左腿麻了！
(詩歌，委婉) 去世 (常見於墓碑上)
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 7:60:
  And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loud voice, Lord lay not this sinne to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleepe. And Saul was consenting vnto his death.
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