English Dictionary

eternal sleep

名詞

不可算名詞 婉語 慣用表現

(mythology, fiction, fantasy) A magical state of suspended animation, a state of ageless, deathless, everlasting sleep. Well-known examples are Endymion, (the lover of the Greek moon goddess, Selene), and the princess from Sleeping Beauty.

日本語の意味

永遠の眠り：魔法により生み出される、加齢や死が存在しない、果てしなく続く眠り状態。 / 永遠の安眠状態：神話や物語において、時間や老いを超越した不死の睡眠を表す。

Bards still sing of the moon priestess who sealed her people in eternal sleep to protect them from a ravenous curse.

吟遊詩人たちは、飢えた呪いから守るために人々を永遠の眠りに閉じ込めた月の巫女の物語を今も歌い継いでいる。

意味（1）

(mythology, fiction, fantasy) A magical state of suspended animation, a state of ageless, deathless, everlasting sleep. Well-known examples are Endymion, (the lover of the Greek moon goddess, Selene), and the princess from Sleeping Beauty.

She is, indeed, most wondrous fair: Gold of sunshine in her hair. Lips that shame the red red rose. In ageless sleep, she finds repose. The years roll by, but a hundred years, to a steadfast heart, are but a day.

意味（2）

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Death