2doze offphrasal verbphr vSLEEPto go to sleep, especially when you did not intend to 〔尤指在无意的情况下〕睡着SYN drop off, nod off
I must have dozed off.
我一定是睡着了。
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doze off• Sorry, I must have dozed off for a few minutes.• I was just beginning to doze off when the telephonerang.
—doze noun [singular]
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doze• While Celestine paid avidattention, Paula started to doze.• He left his motherdozing by the file.• With eel in her hand, the baby at her feet, Sethe dozed, dry-mouthed and sweaty.• Some people managed to sleep, but most of us just dozed fitfully.• Geoff laydozing gently in a sunlounger.• From here she could see old Mrs Fermoyle dozing in her hugecrib.• Kevin often dozes in his chair instead of going to lunch.• As we dozed off, we heard the sound of approachingfootsteps and voices, which jerked us quickly back to life.• All this is done while the philosopherstares abstractedly out of the window and the interviewerdozes off.• Lying on the bed she had dozed rather than slept.
Origindoze
(1600-1700) From a Scandinavian language; related to Old Norsedúsa“to sleep lightly”