nap

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nap1 /næp/ noun

1 [countableC]SLEEP a short sleep, especially during the day 〔尤指白天的〕小睡，打盹

have/take a nap

I usually take a nap after lunch.

我午饭后通常要小睡一会儿。

an afternoon nap

午睡

2. [singular]TIM the soft surface on some cloth and leather, made by brushing the short fine threads or hairs in one direction 〔布或皮革上的〕绒面，绒毛 → pile1(7)

n COLLOCATIONS

verbs

have/take a nap

I took a nap after lunch.

ADJECTIVES/NOUN + nap

a short/little nap

A short nap may make you feel better.

a quick/brief nap

I like to have a brief nap in the afternoon.

an afternoon/morning nap

She has her afternoon nap at about two.

a two-hour/twenty minute etc nap

At age four, she was still having a two-hour nap every day.

a power nap (=a short sleep at work, that gives you more energy and concentration)

Try taking a power nap before the meeting.

a catnap (=a very short sleep)

I envied her ability to take catnaps at any time of the day.

nap + NOUN

nap time

You can always tell when it's a baby's nap time because they start getting irritable.

Examples from the Corpus

nap• The muscle work comes after breakfast, then again after lunch and a nap.• Two of them were only having a nap.• He went to the library at noon and sat, idly reading, wanting a nap, forgetting to have lunch.• He waited until Lois came upstairs for her little afternoon nap.• He leads me to a dormitory, where eight boys are settling down into one big bed for their afternoon nap.• Often even young children can't have a comfortable nap during the day.• As I approached the veranda, three people got up from what appeared to be an early evening nap and came outside.• These raised the nap on the cloth, which could then be cropped with shears to give it a smoother finish.

have/take a nap• Why don't you just put your head down and have a nap while Mark and I chat a few things over.• Dave took a nap on the ride home.• But between two o'clock and three-thirty, Flora took a nap.• Take a shower, have a nap?• Following that kind of meal, the two main options are to take a nap or a walk.• Janir, I have to take a nap.• I was to take a nap in his house that afternoon.• We were very quiet because some people were taking a nap.

nap2 verb (napped, napping) [intransitiveI]

1 be caught napping informalREADY to not be ready to deal with something when it happens, although you should be ready for it 没有防备，一不留神

The German team were caught napping and Lampard scored the winning goal.

趁德国队一不留神，兰帕德攻入了制胜的一球。

Examples from the Corpus

be caught napping• I was reminding the golfing spirits that I could not be caught napping.• Quakers were caught napping again two minutes later.• Nowadays, no company can afford to be caught napping by a technological development.• Stock traders who ignore these signs are in danger of being caught napping when a recession hits.

2. SLEEPto sleep for a short time during the day 〔在白天〕小睡，打盹

Examples from the Corpus

nap• This double-barreled ap-proach should catch our competitors napping.• Too alert to sleep, I fill my notebook with sketches of the nubble under the quarter moon while Margaret naps.• But Springsteen wouldn't catch me napping again.• But many tourists waste their first day abroad anyway, napping either in a hotel bed or a theater seat.• He thought he might nap for a while, then read some of it, whatever the hour.• Here and there, they nap -- half an hour, an hour, rarely longer.• One was asleep, napping under a trilby hat pulled down over his eyes.

Origin nap1

1. (1300-1400) → NAP2

2. (1400-1500) Middle Dutch noppe

nap2

Old English hnappian

nap1 noun →n COLLOCATIONS1nap2 verb

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