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nap

/nap/US // næp //UK // (næp) //

小睡,小憩,打盹儿,打盹

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    napped, nap·ping.

    • : to sleep for a short time; doze.
    • : to be off one's guard: The question caught him napping.
v.有主动词 verb
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    napped, nap·ping.

    • : to sleep or doze through: I napped the afternoon away. He naps away most of his classes.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a brief period of sleep, especially one taken during daytime: Has the baby had her nap?

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Examples

  • The last thing I want to do is spend ANY amount of time in my hotel room, because inevitably I will gravitate toward taking a nap.

  • I do not think they chose to wait until the Politics Report bedded down for the long winter nap but I suspect they maybe did.

  • A mask to keep the world at bayBest known for creating an extremely antisocial nap pillow a few years back, Ostrich now has a moderately antisocial eye mask to offer.

  • Much of the team had dozed off for a quick nap or busied themselves tuning up their bicycles.

  • “Never was a nap person in The Before and yet here we find ourselves,” Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation, recently observed of her own altered habits on Twitter.

  • You would drink it, then “take a little nap and after that you feel wonderful,” according to a press agent.

  • Perhaps he had been feeding off the relative youth of Paul, who appeared in need of a long nap by this point.

  • Researchers have found that a long nap — of two hours or more — can significantly improve alertness for up to 24 hours.

  • Nap Smarter So how do you make the most of your precious nap-time minutes?

  • A “caffeine nap,” or a quick cup of something caffeinated followed by a nap, outperforms both a nap or caffeine independently.

  • He ate as many as he wanted and then, as he always felt sleepy after he had eaten, he thought he would lie down and have a nap.

  • Then came dinner and a nap under the trees until the late afternoon, when work began again.

  • However, when the church-bells began, she was turning round in her warm bed for another nap.

  • When it was time for him to have a nap, and mamma went to call him, she noticed that a great many of the dandelions were gone.

  • He found his judge awakening from a nap before his library fire and dusting the crumbs from his beard.