napping

英 [ˈnæpɪŋ]

美 [ˈnæpɪŋ]

v. 打盹，小睡(尤指日间)
nap的现在分词

COCA.41136

柯林斯词典

N-COUNT (尤指在白天的)打盹，小睡
If you have anap, you have a short sleep, usually during the day.
1. Use your lunch hour to have a nap in your chair...
  利用午饭时间坐在椅子上打个盹吧。
2. I might take a little nap.
  我可能会打个盹。
VERB (尤指在白天)小睡，打盹
If younap, you sleep for a short period of time, usually during the day.
1. An elderly person may nap during the day and then sleep only five hours a night.
  老年人白天会小睡一会儿，然后晚上只睡5个小时。
(地毯或天鹅绒等表面的)绒毛
Thenapof a carpet or of a cloth such as velvet is the top layer of short threads, which usually lie smoothly in one direction.
PHRASE 被弄得措手不及;猝不及防
If someoneis caught napping, something happens when they are not prepared for it, although they should have been.
1. The security services were clearly caught napping.
  保安工作明显有漏洞。

adj

not prepared or vigilant
1. the blow caught him napping
2. caught in an off-guard moment
3. found him off his guard
Synonym:off-guard(a)off guard(p)off one's guard(p)off his guardoff her guardoff your guard

When marine mammals sleep and swim at once, they are in a state similar to napping.
当海洋哺乳动物一边睡觉一边游泳时，它们处在与打瞌睡相似的状态。
So I was brought up with the idea that cat napping was a good thing.
因此，在我成长过程中就有了这样一种想法：打盹儿是件好事。
Napping has to be spontaneous; they have to feel the need to go and sleep.
小睡必须是自发的；他们必须觉得有需要去睡觉。
The sudden attack caught the guards napping.
卫兵们给突然袭击打了个措手不及。
How does napping affect human performance in the afternoon and in the evening? We conducted an experiment to investigate this issue.
午睡对人在下午和晚上的工作有多大帮助？作者进行了一项实验研究这个问题。
Yet some companies take a very different stance on workplace napping.
然而有些公司对在工作场合打盹采取了迥然不同的态度。
Clive is a clever swindler, but the police will catch him napping sooner or later.
克莱夫是个有技巧的骗子，但警察迟早会出其意地抓住他的。
Napping boosted scores on the word-pair test, but not the other two tests.
小睡会增进每组文字测试的分数，但并不是其它的两个测试。
They say good things about napping.
他们说的都是打盹儿的好处。
That afternoon while Wendy was napping, I went to the cellar.
那天下午我趁温迪午睡时去了地下室。