informalSLEEP to sleep lightly for a short time 小睡,打盹SYN doze
Dad was snoozing in his armchair.
爸爸在扶手椅里打盹。
—snooze noun [countableC]
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snooze• Two bloodywars and we're still content to snooze and let that lot get on with it.• Loi probably snoozed and Rex wrote up his logbooks.• His day is filled with snoozing and watching the birds go by.• The study showed that if pilots on long-haulflights take a briefsnooze in the cockpit, they're more alert for the landing.• Later, there is a picnic followed by more beach games, perhaps while the adultssnooze in the sun.• Remember that even if the place you choose to snooze is well-shaded, the shadows may shift before you awake.• Dad was snoozing on the beach.• The baby was snoozing peacefully in her stroller, so we stopped to have a drink.• The film was rather longer than she had expected and Hudson's concentration shorter and he snoozed through much of it.• But the Bruins snoozed through the finalminutes, allowing the Sun Devils to rally.