A:Hey,what's up,Marco?

怎么樣啊。Marco.

B:Not much,you?

還好，你呢?

A:Nothing much,I almost didn't recognize your voice,You sound a little different.

不錯，我沒聽出來是你，你的聲音聽起來有點(diǎn)不一樣

B:I lost my voice.,well,how did you sleep last night?

我嗓子啞了，你昨晚睡得怎么樣?

A:Too bad,I went to bed early,but I couldn't fall asleep,and when I did,I had a lot of nightmares,I guess I 've got the insomnia.

糟透了，我很早就上床了，但我睡不著。等我睡著了，又作了很多惡夢。我想我得矢眠癥了

B:what does that mean?

那是什么意思。

A:"Insomnia" means you can't fall asleep.My roommate Peter slept like a log and he kept snoring,,Jesus,I would kill anybody for just 2-hour sound sleep.

就是睡不著。我室友Peter睡得跟豬似的，他一直打呼。天啊，要是能讓我睡倆個鐘頭的話，干什么都行

B:{chuckles}Interesting.Well ,do you happen to know some sleeping problems?

有意思，你知道睡眠的問題嗎?

A:I am not so sure about them,but I'll tell you all that I know.

我不太確定，不過我盡量

B:Okay.

好的

A;Well,you have already known insomnia,which means the inability to sleep.

你已經(jīng)知道矢眠。意思是睡不著

B:Yes.

是的

A:And snoring is another sleeping problem.

打呼是另一種

B:Yes.

是的

A:Sometimes people talk while sleeping,and we call that sleep talking. There are some people who suddenly wake up at midnight,going around for a while,then go back to sleep again,that's called sleep wsalking.

有時人們說夢話，或者睡覺是突然醒過來，然后又睡過去，就是夢游

B;That's scaring.

挺嚇人的

A:Kind of. And some people fart,some people grind their teeth or smack their lips……,well.there're so many of them,I can't come up with them all,

一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)，有的人放屁，磨牙或是叭幾嘴。太多了，我一時想不起來

B:That's already too much,speaking of those,I am kind of tired. I am sure you're sleepy too,so I better let you go sleep.

夠多的了，說起這些，我有點(diǎn)困了，我知道你也困了，所以我還是讓你睡吧

A:You bet.well talk to you later.

當(dāng)然再聊

B;Bye.

再見

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[1]How did you sleep last night?你睡得好嗎?問候別人睡得怎么樣是一個常見的問題，類似的說法還有Did you sleep soundly last night?和,Did you sleep well last night?等

[2]Nightmare是一個常見病，它除了有惡夢的意思之外，還可以表示糟糕的情況，比如說The transportation in BJ is a nightmare.

[3]He slept like a log.表示他睡得跟死豬似的。Log是數(shù)學(xué)中的對數(shù)。它也表示木頭，睡得跟木頭似的，漢語的最佳解釋就是睡得跟死豬似的。

[4]常見的睡眠疾病有insomnia矢眠，,sleep talking說夢話,sleep walking夢游,wetting the bed尿床.snore打呼.nightmare作惡夢,grinding your teeth磨牙等

Related Words…相關(guān)詞匯

rinckle nightperson pull an all nighter burn the midnight oil stay up late