咱们昨天讲了“宿醉”，今天可算是清醒过来了。听说：现在网上有一群快期末考试还没预习、快考四六级还没做过真题的学渣们在为一群学了三年的学霸们加油助威，哈哈，大家一定要保持头脑清醒啊！高考的孩儿们，加油喔！

hangover 宿醉，high过后的松垮感，后遗症

I have a hangover（this morning）.

我（早上起来）觉得还是有点宿醉。

He's still sleeping off yesterday's hangover.

他还在睡觉，在消除昨天的宿醉呢。



sober 清醒的，未醉的

He was drunk yesterday, but now he is sober.

他昨天喝醉了的,但现在是清醒的。

sober up 使清醒

I need a cup of tea to sober myself up.

我需要一杯茶来醒醒酒。



【sober】

1. ADJ When you are sober, you are not drunk. 清醒的

He'd been drunk when I arrived. Now he was sober.

我到的时候他已经喝醉了。现在他清醒了。

2. ADJ Sober colours and clothes are plain and rather dull. (颜色或衣服) 素淡的

He dresses in sober grey suits.

他穿着一套素净的灰色衣服。

3.ADJ A sober person is serious and thoughtful. 严肃的

We are now far more sober and realistic.

我们现在严肃多了，也现实多了。

It was a room filled with sad, sober faces.

这是一个满是忧伤和严肃面孔的房间。

vt.

1. 使清醒；使醒酒 (up):

to sober somebody up

令某人清醒

Take a smoke to sober you up!

吸支烟醒醒酒。

These bloody lessons would sober most people down.

这些血的教训总会令大多数人清醒了吧。

The lessons learned at the cost of blood helped to sober us.

血的教训使我们的头脑清醒了。

2.[口语] 使冷静；使自制；使严肃 (down):

Sober her down; she's mad.

让她安静下来，她都快疯了。

vi.

1. 清醒起来；醒酒 (off， up):

Let's go and leave him alone to sober up.

咱们走吧，让他一个人清醒一下。

2. [口语] 变得冷静；变得严肃 (down):

Now I can't talk with you until you sober down.

现在我不能和你谈，等你冷静之后咱们再谈吧。

短语

(as) sober as a judge 根本未醉的，非常清醒的；十分冷静的；极严肃的