drift off

1. 以上各短语均含开始睡着之义。
   These words all mean to start to sleep.
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。

1. PHRASAL VERB 迷迷糊糊地睡去;逐渐入睡
   If you drift off to 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。

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。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. I've tried letting my mind drift off to my happy place, but I can't get cell phone reception there.
   我已经试着让我的思想转移到我快乐的地方，但我在那收不到手机信号。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. At the same time, as Gary Hamel surely a shoo-in for a future honorary fellowship in strategy pointed out to me, many universities have allowed their own management research to drift off into financial exotica or business esoterica.
   同时，加里哈默尔（garyhamel，此人未来必将成为战略学的荣誉高级会员）告诉我，许多大学的管理学研究已经开始涉足一些不带有普遍性的金融现象，或商业中一些深奥的学问。
8. Later the president is able to tuck his children into bed before they drift off to sleep.
   晚饭过后，在他们睡之前总统奥巴马还能哄孩子们睡觉。
9. Every time I drift off course, I get reminded of this story.
   每当我对人生漫不经心时，我就会想起这个故事。
10. Around midnight, I drift off on a bunk bed inside the cabin.
    大约午夜，我渐渐离开，在船舱里的双层床上休息。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. 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”。
14. Don't want them to drift off into too deep a sleep.
    他们不能睡得太熟。
15. When long wall mining to the dip in fully-mechanized coal winning working face is inclined area, we may can't use existing drift draw off water.
    当倾斜长壁开采的综放工作面初采范围处于向斜构造区，造成初采放水无法利用已有巷道形成自流放水，必须考虑动力排水或其他的放水方式。
16. 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。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. 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！
20. 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。
21. Based on the end pump system, the equation of the laser field has been studied, which shows that the distribution of the laser gain can affect the laser mode and make the base mode of the laser to drift off from the Gauss distribution.
    通过对端面抽运情形下光场运动方程的研究，发现不均匀的空间增益分布会影响激光振荡的模式，并且使得基模振荡光偏离高斯分布。
22. Primary Study of Drift-off-Course of Information in Net-work Study
    网络学习中的信息迷航问题初探
23. 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。
24. 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。
25. The system of multi-property is able to supervise managers routine business activities through external market system and internal organization, and make managers business not drift off targets of owners.
    多元的产权主体通过外部完善的市场体系和内部健全的组织结构来监督经营者的日常经营活动，使经营者的经营不至于过大地偏离所有者的目标。
26. 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。
27. 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。
28. The analysis for the effect shows that the ground-mode oscillating beam will drift off the Gauss distribution if the nonequilibrium gain distribution is caused by pumping light in the laser medium.
    这种影响主要表现为：若抽运光在激光介质中引起非均匀的增益分布，基模振荡光将偏离高斯分布。
29. 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。

verb

1. change from a waking to a sleeping state
   1. he always falls asleep during lectures

   Synonym:    fall asleepdope offflake outnod offdrop offdoze offdrowse off