And there's even suggestion from studies in mice that prolonged sleep loss can lead to brain damage.

在老鼠身上进行的研究甚至表明，长时间的睡眠不足会导致脑损伤。

When things were going better she would get up at eleven o'clock in the morning and shut herself up until two o'clock, completely nude, in the bathroom, killing scorpions as she came out of her dense and prolonged sleep.

当情况好转时， 她会在早上十一点起床， 然后把自己关到凌晨两点，赤身裸体地在浴室里杀蝎子， 然后从沉沉而漫长的睡眠中苏醒。