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

• 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。
• As I watched her, I began to drift off to sleep, feeling nothing menacing about her.
  当我看到她，我开始散去睡觉，感觉没有什么威胁她。
• 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。
• Don't want them to drift off into too deep a sleep.
  他们不能睡得太熟。
• 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。
• Very nice, better than last week, he'd say. Then I would follow into a medley of his favorites, Red River Valley and Home on the Range, and he would drift off to sleep, the newspaper folded on his lap.
  他会说，不错，比上星期好，然后我会接着拉他喜欢的曲子红河谷和山上的家。听着听着，他慢慢睡着了，报纸叠在腿上。
• 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。
• It has Taiwan, of course, but the collage also includes a smattering of small shapes that drift off into what is presumably the South China Sea.
  当然，地图里包括了台湾，但还有零星几张照片漂移到了应该是南中国海的地方。
• 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。
• 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。