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
  1. When she finally fell asleep, she began to dream.
     她终于睡着了，并开始做梦。
  2. I pinched myself to stop myself from falling asleep.
     我掐自己以防自己睡着。
• 指入睡，尤指有意想睡着：
  to start to sleep, especially when you intend to
  1. I shut my eyes and tried to go to sleep.
     我闭上了眼睛想睡。
  2. He woke for a moment and then went to sleep again.
     他醒了一会儿，然后又睡了。
• 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
  1. He took a long time getting to sleep that night.
     他那天晚上过了好长时间才睡着。
• 指睡着，尤指渐渐地入睡：
  to fall asleep, especially gradually
  1. 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。
• 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
  1. I was practically nodding off in that meeting.
     我在那次会议上差点睡着了。
• 指打盹儿、小睡：
  ( BrE informal ) to start sleeping lightly
  1. I dropped off and missed the end of the film.
     我打了个盹儿，错过了影片的结尾。

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.
  1. 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。

英英释义

verb

• change from a waking to a sleeping state
  1. he always falls asleep during lectures
  Synonym:fall asleepdope offflake outnod offdrop offdoze offdrowse off

双语例句

• 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。
• They put on their headphones, drape a hood over their head and drift off into the world of "digital highs".
  他们戴上耳机，裹住头部，沉溺于“数码极乐世界”。
• 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。
• The securities noise is not a rational information which makes the equilibrium price of stock drift off its internal price under the environment of information unsymmetry.
  股市信息噪声是指在信息不对称情况下，导致股票均衡价格与其内在价值偏离的非理性信息。
• Don't want them to drift off into too deep a sleep.
  他们不能睡得太熟。
• 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。
• Teaching-research-type universities tend to drift off their main course as a result of seeking higher level, larger scale and comprehensive disciplines.
  教学研究型大学往往因求高、求大、求全，工作重心容易出现偏差。
• 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。
• 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。
• Ignoring linguistic universalism study will make the research in China drift off from the cognitive method that language is used as a part of common biological property and hence head for isolationism.
  忽视语言共性研究将使中国语言学偏离语言作为全人类共同生物属性一部分的认识方法，从而走向孤立主义的道路。