People woken during these periods of eye-movements generally reported that they had been dreaming.
在眼球活动期间被叫醒的人都说自己在做梦；
新概念英语第四册 Lesson 19 The stuff of dreams

📚 句中词汇解析

从本句中提取的重要词汇

people ['pipl] 词频1 词根: 公众
n. 人，人类;居民;人民;种族; vt. 居住于，布满;使住满人，在…殖民;把动物放养在;
💡 popul, publ 表”人民”
"I can't abide people with no sense of humour."
我讨厌和没有幽默感的人打交道。
近义：populate, settle, crowd, individuals, persons, folks 反义：person, single, subject, dude, bleeder, bloke
generally ['dʒɛnrəli] 词频1
adv. 一般地，通常;广泛地，普遍地;概括地;主要地;
💡 gener出生+ally...地→出生具有普偏性→通常地；通常强调普遍性
"It is generally accepted that people are motivated by success."
大多数人认为成功会推动人的积极性.
近义：invariably, mainly, mostly, normally, periodically, regularly 反义：infrequently, occasionally, seldom, sometimes
woken
wake的过去分词
dreaming
a. 有梦想的
近义：hope, illusion, imagining, aspiration, fantasy, daydreaming 反义：sooth, substantiality, truth, verity, actuality, fact
periods
n. 周期（period的复数）

📚 更多「新概念英语第四册」例句

You play to win, and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win.
参加比赛就是为了取胜。如果不拚命去赢，比赛就没有什么意义了。
Beyond two or three days, the world's best weather forecasts are speculative,
世界上最好的两三天以上的天气预报具有很强的猜测性，
and in passing leaves and indefinable longing and regret.
并在消逝中给人留下不可名状的渴望和惆怅。
In 1953, a former electronics engineer in his fifties, Christopher Cockerell,who had turned to boat-building on the Norfolk Broads,
在1953年，有一位50多岁名叫克里斯托弗·科克雷尔的原电子工程师，改行在诺福克郡的湖泊地区从事造船业，
who rolled balls down inclined planes,
他就是那个使球体沿斜面向下滚动，
of becoming more likely to die the older we get, was something self-evident,
人随着年龄的增长而接近死亡，这是不言而喻的，