drift off
英 [drɪft ɒf]
美 [drɪft ɔːf]
迷迷糊糊地睡去; 逐渐入睡
牛津词典
- 以上各短语均含开始睡着之义。
These words all mean to start to sleep. - 指入睡，有时指无意之中或在不适当的场合睡着：
to start to sleep, sometimes when you do not intend to or in a situation that is not appropriate- When she finally fell asleep, she began to dream.
她终于睡着了，并开始做梦。 - I pinched myself to stop myself from falling asleep.
我掐自己以防自己睡着。
- When she finally fell asleep, she began to dream.
- 指入睡，尤指有意想睡着：
to start to sleep, especially when you intend to- I shut my eyes and tried to go to sleep.
我闭上了眼睛想睡。 - He woke for a moment and then went to sleep again.
他醒了一会儿，然后又睡了。
- I shut my eyes and tried to go to sleep.
- 指开始入睡，尤指经过很长时间或很难才睡着：
to start sleeping, especially after a long time or when this is difficult- He took a long time getting to sleep that night.
他那天晚上过了好长时间才睡着。
- He took a long time getting to sleep that night.
- 指睡着，尤指渐渐地入睡：
to fall asleep, especially gradually- I must have drifted off, because when I woke we were nearly home.
我一定是睡着了，因为我醒来时我们已快到家了。
- I must have drifted off, because when I woke we were nearly home.
- 指睡着了一会儿，尤指坐着或在不该睡觉时打瞌睡：
( informal ) to fall asleep for a short time, especially when you are sitting down and when you are not supposed to be sleeping- I was practically nodding off in that meeting.
我在那次会议上差点睡着了。
- I was practically nodding off in that meeting.
- 指打盹儿、小睡：
( BrE informal ) to start sleeping lightly- I dropped off and missed the end of the film.
我打了个盹儿，错过了影片的结尾。
- I dropped off and missed the end of the film.
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 迷迷糊糊地睡去;逐渐入睡
If youdrift offto sleep, you gradually fall asleep.- It was only when he finally drifted off to sleep that the headaches eased.
只有当他最后迷迷糊糊睡着时,他的头痛才有所减轻。
- It was only when he finally drifted off to sleep that the headaches eased.
英英释义
verb
- change from a waking to a sleeping state
- he always falls asleep during lectures
双语例句
- I've tried letting my mind drift off to my happy place, but I can't get cell phone reception there.
我已经试着让我的思想转移到我快乐的地方，但我在那收不到手机信号。 - When long wall mining to the dip in fully-mechanized coal winning working face is inclined area, we may can't use existing drift draw off water.
当倾斜长壁开采的综放工作面初采范围处于向斜构造区，造成初采放水无法利用已有巷道形成自流放水，必须考虑动力排水或其他的放水方式。 - The analysis for the effect shows that the ground-mode oscillating beam will drift off the Gauss distribution if the nonequilibrium gain distribution is caused by pumping light in the laser medium.
这种影响主要表现为：若抽运光在激光介质中引起非均匀的增益分布，基模振荡光将偏离高斯分布。 - As I watched her, I began to drift off to sleep, feeling nothing menacing about her.
当我看到她，我开始散去睡觉，感觉没有什么威胁她。 - You drift off to sleep and next thing you know, it sounds like a lumberyard.
你睡着了然后被惊醒，那就像木场里锯木发出的声音。 - Every time I drift off course, I get reminded of this story.
每当我对人生漫不经心时，我就会想起这个故事。 - The spectators give a great cheer for their city, then drift off into the night.
观众们为自己的城市放声欢呼，然后在黑夜中渐渐散去。 - One great benefit of learning to nurse lying down is that you can drift off to sleep while your baby nurses.
学会卧位哺乳的一个很大好处是在宝宝吃奶时你可以入睡。 - The failure of some college students can ′ t be totally imputed to their loss of core value, but its loss can inevitably result in the indifference to ideal, the deviation of value and the drift off life course.
大学生的失败并不都是由核心价值观的缺失引起的，但是核心价值观的缺失必然引起大学生理想信念的淡漠，价值取向的偏离和人生航向的迷失。 - Very nice, better than last week, he'd say. Then I would follow into a medley of his favorites, Red River Valley and Home on the Range, and he would drift off to sleep, the newspaper folded on his lap.
他会说，不错，比上星期好，然后我会接着拉他喜欢的曲子红河谷和山上的家。听着听着，他慢慢睡着了，报纸叠在腿上。