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
- 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。 - Though our pilots today will try to approximate the original landing site, there have the mercy of the winds, so who knows where they'll drift off to.
尽管我们的飞行员今天将尽力地去估算当时着陆的地点，但是得宽容一下，因为有风，所以没人晓得他们能漂到哪里！ - 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。 - We can't just watch it drift off course and say goodbye to all that work and money.
我们不能眼睁睁的看着它沉睡然后和所有的工作和花费说再见。 - 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。 - 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。 - No more kinks in the neck while they sleep, let them drift off to dreamland with this super soft micro-fleece pillow that attaches easily and securely to the safety belt.
这款安全带头枕，超软细羊毛材质，便于牢固地连接在安全带上。睡眠时舒适惬意，孩子伴着它进入梦乡，再也不必担心颈部抽筋了。 - 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。 - 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。 - At the same time, as Gary Hamel surely a shoo-in for a future honorary fellowship in strategy pointed out to me, many universities have allowed their own management research to drift off into financial exotica or business esoterica.
同时，加里哈默尔（garyhamel，此人未来必将成为战略学的荣誉高级会员）告诉我，许多大学的管理学研究已经开始涉足一些不带有普遍性的金融现象，或商业中一些深奥的学问。