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
- 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！ - 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。 - 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。 - In this paper, the second order steady drift force on ships and floating off-shore structures are calculated by far field method.
应用远场方法计算了作用在船舶及离岸结构物上的二阶稳态横漂力。 - Around midnight, I drift off on a bunk bed inside the cabin.
大约午夜，我渐渐离开，在船舱里的双层床上休息。 - 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。 - 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。 - Based on the end pump system, the equation of the laser field has been studied, which shows that the distribution of the laser gain can affect the laser mode and make the base mode of the laser to drift off from the Gauss distribution.
通过对端面抽运情形下光场运动方程的研究，发现不均匀的空间增益分布会影响激光振荡的模式，并且使得基模振荡光偏离高斯分布。 - Later the president is able to tuck his children into bed before they drift off to sleep.
晚饭过后，在他们睡之前总统奥巴马还能哄孩子们睡觉。