【一起闲话英语】睡眠质量-Sleep

 Matthew / Canada

speaker Probably somewhere between six and seven hours a night. It depends what I'm doing in the evening, or what I have to do in the morning, but I usually go to bed not too late, but I usually have to get up pretty early so, usually around six or seven hours a night.

 

Lindsay / United States

speaker I try to get eight hours of sleep but usually I only get six hours of sleep because I wake up probably every two or three hours because I grind¹ my teeth and it wakes me up.

 

Eoin / England

speaker I think probably I get about six or seven hours of sleep a night on average. Yeah, when I'm busy with stuff² outside of work, like organizing concerts or just other stuff, I probably get less, maybe like four or five.

 

Lori / Canada

speaker That depends on certain factors, but I'd say usually I get about seven hours of sleep, but I'm a pretty light sleeper³, so if my neighbors are being noisy or having a party I usually don't get much sleep at all.

 

Amir / Iran

speaker I sleep eight hours a night and I think that's exactly the time that I can wake up at the morning and feel good about myself, not feeling sleepy, and I can work very efficiently⁴ the rest of my day.

 

Aki / Japan

speaker I try to get eight. Weekdays, maybe around seven, weekends, maybe about ten hours. I love sleeping. I love sleeping in. I love like watching TV in bed.

1 grind   

n.（常贬义）用功的学生，书呆子；vt.磨，磨碎

参考例句：

• Would you please grind a pound of coffee for me? 请给我磨一磅咖啡好吗？
• Do you find learning English a grind?你觉得学英语是一件苦差事吗？

2 stuff   

n.原料，材料，东西；vt.填满；吃饱

参考例句：

• We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
• He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。

3 sleeper   

n.睡眠者，卧车，卧铺

参考例句：

• I usually go up to London on the sleeper. 我一般都乘卧车去伦敦。
• But first he explained that he was a very heavy sleeper. 但首先他解释说自己睡觉很沉。

4 efficiently   

adv.高效率地，有能力地

参考例句：

• The worker oils the machine to operate it more efficiently.工人给机器上油以使机器运转更有效。
• Local authorities have to learn to allocate resources efficiently.地方政府必须学会有效地分配资源。