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

• 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”。
• 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。
• When you first drift off into slumber, your eyes will roll about a bit, your temperature will drop slightly, your muscles will relax, and your breathing well slow and become quite regular.
  在你开始昏昏入睡时，你的眼睛会滚动几下，体温略有下降，肌肉放松，呼吸变得缓慢而有节奏。
• It's actually perfect for keeping your head still while you drift off into dreamland.
  进入梦乡的时候，有个东西固定住脑袋才完美啊。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。