| 释义 | 
		snoozesnooze /snuːz/ verb [intransitive]    VERB TABLEsnooze |
 | Present | I, you, we, they | snooze |   | he, she, it | snoozes |  | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | snoozed |  | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have snoozed |   | he, she, it | has snoozed |  | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had snoozed |  | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will snooze |  | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have snoozed |  
 |
 | Present | I | am snoozing |   | he, she, it | is snoozing |   | you, we, they | are snoozing |  | Past | I, he, she, it | was snoozing |   | you, we, they | were snoozing |  | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been snoozing |   | he, she, it | has been snoozing |  | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been snoozing |  | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be snoozing |  | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been snoozing |  
    - Dad was snoozing on the beach.
 - The baby was snoozing peacefully in her stroller, so we stopped to have a drink.
 - The study showed that if pilots on long-haul flights take a brief snooze in the cockpit, they're more alert for the landing.
 
 - But the Bruins snoozed through the final minutes, allowing the Sun Devils to rally.
 - His day is filled with snoozing and watching the birds go by.
 - Later, there is a picnic followed by more beach games, perhaps while the adults snooze in the sun.
 - Loi probably snoozed and Rex wrote up his logbooks.
 - Remember that even if the place you choose to snooze is well-shaded, the shadows may shift before you awake.
 - The film was rather longer than she had expected and Hudson's concentration shorter and he snoozed through much of it.
 - Two bloody wars and we're still content to snooze and let that lot get on with it.
 
   to sleep for a short time► have a nap especially British /take a nap especially American to sleep for a short time during the day: · I was having a nap by the fire one evening when I was woken up by the doorbell· Try to take a nap in the afternoons if you're feeling tired.· The director always takes a nap around this time. ► doze to sleep lightly for a short time, so that you wake up and go back to sleep again, often while you are sitting in a chair or when you do not intend to: · He left his mother dozing by the fire.· Geoff lay dozing gently in a sunlounger.doze fitfully (=to sleep for very short periods): · Some people managed to sleep, but most of us just dozed fitfully. ► snooze /have/take a snooze to sleep for a short time, especially during the day when you do not usually sleep: · The baby was snoozing peacefully in her stroller, so we stopped to have a drink.· The study showed that if pilots on long-haul flights take a brief snooze in the cockpit, they're more alert for the landing. ► grab/snatch some sleep informal to sleep for a short time when you have a chance to, because you are very busy and cannot sleep at your usual time: · I'll go home, snatch a couple of hours' sleep and meet you at four.· I grabbed a little sleep on the train, but it wasn't enough. ► have a sleep British to sleep for a short time during the day because you are tired: · Are you tired? Why don't you have a sleep this afternoon?    informal to sleep lightly for a short time  SYN  doze:   Dad was snoozing in his armchair.—snooze noun [countable]  |