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

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。
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。
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。
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。
What is needed, he says, is a napping policy.
他表示，现在需要的，是一项午睡政策。
Napping after studying can help with recall.
学习后小睡下能帮助记忆。
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。
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。
Don't let the boss catch you napping!
别让老板发现你走神儿！
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。