trance• He looked stunned, almost in a trance, but he soon regained his composure.• The channeler goes into a trance and summons spirits, who either talk through the channeler or appear directly to those present.• Snapping out of his brieftrance, Mungo supposed Stanley was relieved that at least the shop had survived the flood.• a hypnotictrance• Finally I shook myself out of my trance and rolled over on the cot, facing away from her.• At once the two of them fall into a kind of trance.• At least Jenny had known that she would be either drunk or in a state of trance.
go/fall into a trance• She decides to weave the most beautifulblanket in the world and falls into a trance.• The channeler goes into a trance and summons spirits, who either talk through the channeler or appear directly to those present.• Towards the front, some of the men had gone into trance, waiting for the goddess to possess them.• Some of them had gone into trances, and questions were asked by many worriedparents.• Sometimes he went into a trance.• When he did sleep, he simply went into a trance for five minutes.• Breathe the air and you fall into a trance.
in a trance• He looked stunned, almost in a trance, but he soon regained his composure.• Nails sat all day in a trance and every teacher who took his classreported his state to his form-master.• He edgedforwardin a trance and, as he did so, the light in the room was switched off.• As the deepblackshadow in Glen Keltney closed over them, they moved slowly nearer home in a trance of fatigue.• I went about as if in a trance, speaking to no one, not hearing when anyone spoke to me.• Their faces glaze over as if in a trance.• And we lived in a trance throughout most of the 1980s.• Gee! You were really in a trance. Didn't you hear me at all?• Her companionurged her not to interrupt him, as he was running in a trance.
Origintrance
(1300-1400)Old Frenchtranse, from transir“to pass away, become unconscious”, from Latintransire; → TRANSIENT1
ADJECTIVE | VERB + TRANCE | TRANCE + NOUN | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤deep深度昏睡▸➤light輕度昏睡▸➤hypnotic, mesmeric催眠狀態➤ecstatic, meditative心醉神迷;冥想狀態VERB + TRANCE➤enter, enter into, fall into, go into進入昏睡狀態▸➤put sb into使某人進入昏睡狀態➤induce誘發昏睡狀態➤break打破恍惚狀態▸➤awake from, come out of, wake from從恍惚中醒來;從迷睡中醒來TRANCE + NOUN➤state昏睡狀態PREPOSITION➤in a trance在恍惚中◇In a deep trance, the subject is taken back to an earlier stage of their life.在深度迷睡中,接受催眠的人回到了他們的早年。
trance ♦︎ daze ♦︎ reverie ♦︎ daydream ♦︎ stupor ♦︎ dreamThese are all words for a state in which sb seems to be asleep or not aware of what is happening around them.这些词均表示昏睡状态、恍惚。PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS 句型和搭配◆a reverie / daydream about sth◆to be in a trance / daze / reverie / daydream / stupor / dream◆to go / fall into a trance / stupor◆to be lost in a reverie / daydream / dream■trance trɑːns; NAmEtræns [countable, usually singular] a state in which sb seems to be asleep but is aware of what is said to them, for example if they are hypnotized; a state in which sb is thinking so much about sth that they do not notice what is happening around them昏睡状态;催眠状态;出神;发呆◆When the subject has gone into a deep trance, they are taken back to an earlier stage of their life.当实验对象陷入昏睡状态后,他们被带回到自己生命的早期阶段。◆She drove, gripping the wheel in a trance, hardly aware of her surroundings.她开着车,神情恍惚地握着方向盘,简直没留意置身何处。■daze [singular] a confused state, in which you do not know what is happening around you, often caused by a surprise or shock, especially a pleasant one(常因惊喜或激动而产生的)迷茫,茫然,恍惚◆I've been in a complete daze since hearing the news.自从听到那消息,我一直茫然不知所措。ⓘ Daze is always used in the phrase in a ...daze. * daze总是用于短语in a ... daze中。■reverieˈrevəri [countable, uncountable] (formalorliterary) a state of thinking about pleasant things, as if you were dreaming but in fact while you are awake美妙幻想;白日梦;遐想◆As the train pulled away, he drifted into a reverie.火车开动了,他陷入遐想。■daydream ˈdeɪdriːm [countable] pleasant thoughts that make you forget about your surroundings or about what is happening in the present白日梦;幻想;空想◆In one of his daydreams, they were living in a little cottage in the country.他的其中一个幻想就是他们生活在乡间的小屋里。▸daydream
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[intransitive] ◆She would spend hours daydreaming about a house of her own.她常常一连几个小时幻想自己有一所房子。■stuporˈstjuːpə(r); NAmEˈstuːpər [singular, uncountable] (ratherformal) a state in which you are unable to think or hear clearly, especially because you have drunk too much alcohol, taken drugs or had a shock(尤指由于醉酒、吸毒或遭电击而出现的)神志不清,恍惚,麻痹状态◆He drank himself into a stupor.他喝得酩酊大醉。◆They left him slumped in a drunken stupor.他们任他烂醉如泥地倒在那里。■dream [countable] a state of mind in which your thoughts do not seem to be connected to what is real or to what is actually happening around you恍惚;出神◆She walked around in a dream all day.她整天都梦游似地到处转悠。ⓘ In this meaning a dream is a state of mind and may not be a dream about anything in particular. A dream about/of sth is usually more definite, closer in meaning to a hope.表达此义时,dream指的是一种精神状态,并非指梦见的特定情景。a dream about/of sth通常指更具体的梦想,与hope的含义更接近。 see also dream ⇨ hopenoun2