napping

1. N-COUNT (尤指在白天的)打盹，小睡
   If you have a nap, 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。
2. VERB (尤指在白天)小睡，打盹
   If you nap, 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。
3. (地毯或天鹅绒等表面的)绒毛
   The nap of a carpet or of a cloth such as velvet is the top layer of short threads, which usually lie smoothly in one direction.
4. PHRASE 被弄得措手不及;猝不及防
   If someone is 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。

1. The security services were clearly caught napping.
   保安工作明显有漏洞。
2. The Devil is poised to pounce, and would like nothing better than to catch you napping.
   魔鬼正作势突袭，没有一件事比擒获打盹的人更令他高兴。
3. Even napping can help consolidate your memories, and maybe even make you more creative.
   甚至连打盹儿也可以帮你加固记忆，甚至让你更具创造力。
4. Napping after learning something new could help you commit it to memory-as long as you dream, scientists say.
   科学家称，在学了一些新东西之后小睡一会儿能够帮助大脑记忆-只要你做了梦。
5. Late afternoon napping can make daytime sleepiness worse if because it can interfere with nighttime sleep.
   傍晚的时候打个小盹会让日间瞌睡更加严重如果因为这会妨碍夜晚的睡眠。
6. Now some of these more unusual habits, from napping giraffes to birds that sleep while flying, have been revealed in an infographic.
   现在一些更不寻常的睡觉习惯已经用信息图表展示出来了，从打瞌睡的长颈鹿到边飞边睡的鸟类都有记录。
7. 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。
8. This visually dazzling and boldly moral film caught many critics napping when it first came out.
   这部视效眩目、德上大胆的影片刚推出时招致了疏忽的批评。
9. Napping a lot can make it difficult to fall asleep at night.
   午睡了很多，可以使人们难以入睡在夜间进行。
10. This might involve extra sleep by napping, going to bed early, or sleeping in to catch up.
    这可能包括额外的午睡、早睡或者情不自禁的打瞌睡。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. So what about you? Do you nap? Do you feel that it helps you? Napping has become part of my meditative work, and I certainly feel the difference after I take one.
    所以你怎么看呢？你午睡吗？你觉得那样对你有帮助吗？打盹已经成为了我沉思工作的一部分了，小睡片刻以后，我也很明显地感觉到了改善。
14. Napping after studying can help with recall.
    学习后小睡下能帮助记忆。
15. They say good things about napping.
    他们说的都是打盹儿的好处。
16. What is needed, he says, is a napping policy.
    他表示，现在需要的，是一项午睡政策。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. Researchers call this prophylactic napping.
    研究人员称这个为预防性小睡。
20. These findings show that napping helped the learning process.
    这些研究结果表明，在学习过程中，午睡很有帮助。
21. 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。
22. All I need to decide now is how long I should be napping for.
    我现在需要决定的是，我应该午睡多长时间。
23. The question caught him napping.
    这个问题出其不意地把他问倒了。
24. Napping was for people who had nothing better to do other than sleep in the middle of the day.
    午睡只是对于那些没有什么更好的事情做，只有在白天打盹的人有好处。
25. Don't let the boss catch you napping!
    别让老板发现你走神儿！
26. I caught her napping when I went in.
    我进去时发现她在打瞌睡。
27. 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。
28. Before napping, teach students the correct way to put on and take off their sweaters.
    午睡前后，教幼儿正确的穿脱毛衣的方法。
29. The sudden attack caught the guards napping.
    卫兵们给突然袭击打了个措手不及。
30. 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。

adj

1. 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