napping

英 [ˈnæpɪŋ]

美 [ˈnæpɪŋ]

v.  打盹，小睡(尤指日间)
nap的现在分词

COCA.41136

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (尤指在白天的)打盹，小睡
  If you have anap, you have a short sleep, usually during the day.
  1. Use your lunch hour to have a nap in your chair...
     利用午饭时间坐在椅子上打个盹吧。
  2. I might take a little nap.
     我可能会打个盹。
• VERB (尤指在白天)小睡，打盹
  If younap, you sleep for a short period of time, usually during the day.
  1. An elderly person may nap during the day and then sleep only five hours a night.
     老年人白天会小睡一会儿，然后晚上只睡5个小时。
• (地毯或天鹅绒等表面的)绒毛
  Thenapof a carpet or of a cloth such as velvet is the top layer of short threads, which usually lie smoothly in one direction.
• PHRASE 被弄得措手不及;猝不及防
  If someoneis caught napping, something happens when they are not prepared for it, although they should have been.
  1. The security services were clearly caught napping.
     保安工作明显有漏洞。

英英释义

adj

• not prepared or vigilant
  1. the blow caught him napping
  2. caught in an off-guard moment
  3. found him off his guard
  Synonym:off-guard(a)off guard(p)off one's guard(p)off his guardoff her guardoff your guard

双语例句

• Even napping can help consolidate your memories, and maybe even make you more creative.
  甚至连打盹儿也可以帮你加固记忆，甚至让你更具创造力。
• The security services were clearly caught napping.
  保安工作明显有漏洞。
• Napping was for people who had nothing better to do other than sleep in the middle of the day.
  午睡只是对于那些没有什么更好的事情做，只有在白天打盹的人有好处。
• So what about you? Do you nap? Do you feel that it helps you? Napping has become part of my meditative work, and I certainly feel the difference after I take one.
  所以你怎么看呢？你午睡吗？你觉得那样对你有帮助吗？打盹已经成为了我沉思工作的一部分了，小睡片刻以后，我也很明显地感觉到了改善。
• Late afternoon napping can make daytime sleepiness worse if because it can interfere with nighttime sleep.
  傍晚的时候打个小盹会让日间瞌睡更加严重如果因为这会妨碍夜晚的睡眠。
• What is needed, he says, is a napping policy.
  他表示，现在需要的，是一项午睡政策。
• That afternoon while Wendy was napping, I went to the cellar.
  那天下午我趁温迪午睡时去了地下室。
• Napping after learning something new could help you commit it to memory-as long as you dream, scientists say.
  科学家称，在学了一些新东西之后小睡一会儿能够帮助大脑记忆-只要你做了梦。
• Yet some companies take a very different stance on workplace napping.
  然而有些公司对在工作场合打盹采取了迥然不同的态度。
• They say good things about napping.
  他们说的都是打盹儿的好处。