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siesta

/see-es-tuh/US // siˈɛs tə //UK // (sɪˈɛstə) //

午睡,午休,午觉,午睡时间

Related Words

nod点头,点点头,点头示意,点赞catnap小睡一下,小睡片刻,小睡,小睡一会doze瞌睡,瞌睡虫,打盹儿,盹儿rest休息时间,休息,休息时,休息区catch接住,抓住,捕捉,捕获sleep睡眠,睡觉,睡眠问题,睡眠时间snooze打盹儿,瞌睡,打瞌睡,打盹rack机架,架,架子,架设drowse昏睡,昏昏欲睡,沉思,昏昏沉沉drop off辍学,掉落,丢下,掉落的relax放松,松弛,放轻松,放松心情nod off打瞌睡,点头,点点头,打瞌睡了

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a midday or afternoon rest or nap, especially as taken in Spain and Latin America.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
catch接住,抓住,捕捉,捕获catnap小睡一下,小睡片刻,小睡,小睡一会doze瞌睡,瞌睡虫,打盹儿,盹儿drowse昏睡,昏昏欲睡,沉思,昏昏沉沉nod点头,点点头,点头示意,点赞rack机架,架,架子,架设rest休息时间,休息,休息时,休息区sleep睡眠,睡觉,睡眠问题,睡眠时间snooze打盹儿,瞌睡,打瞌睡,打盹catch forty winks瞥一眼,捉迷藏,瞥一眼就走drop off辍学,掉落,丢下,掉落的get some shut-eye闭目养神,闭目养神吧,闭上眼睛grab some z's抓紧时间睡觉,抓紧时间,抓紧时间休息,抓紧时间休息吧nod off打瞌睡,点头,点点头,打瞌睡了relax放松,松弛,放轻松,放松心情take a siesta午睡,睡午觉,午睡时,小憩take a snooze打盹儿,打瞌睡,打盹,瞌睡

Examples

  • Some cultures, of course, do embrace the afternoon nap, or siesta.

  • During the week, most meals are taken at home, including midday lunch, when many businesses shut down, and might be followed by a siesta.

  • How can anyone go home for a three-course meal and a siesta in the midst of peak trading?

  • Now Egypt is again leading the way to the future after a long siesta under Hosni Mubarak.

  • When we reached the hotel everybody went in to take a siesta—that "Mittags-Schlaf" which is law in Germany.

  • They dined, therefore, in silence, and afterwards he laid himself down as usual on the sofa for a siesta.

  • The session lasted until time for the noonday luncheon and siesta , and was resumed in the afternoon.

  • We happened to reach it when the prisoners were having a siesta.

  • Is there no sombra where we can eat our lunch and take a siesta?

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