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A catnap is a very short sleep: ten minutes in a chair, twenty on a sofa, not a night in bed. You can take a catnap (noun) or catnap (verb). The picture is cats, who take many small, light sleeps through the day instead of one long block. The word is friendly and informal — family talk, offices, travel. Close words are nap, doze, and snooze. A “power nap” is a planned short sleep; a catnap often feels even lighter, something you snatch. Though actually a catnap can help a tired driver, it is not the same as real night sleep, and a long daytime sleep may leave you groggy rather than fresh.
小睡、打盹、瞇一下
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
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catnapnoun詞源 1/ˈkætˌnæp/
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A brief, light sleep, usually during the daytime.
- Besides, I reflected, Joe might easily have become a catnapper, as so many millions of other Americans had become since Sarah Perkins, during the campaign, had made it so widely known that although the incumbent President slept in a bed with the covers over him for three and sometimes four hours a night, she herself never slept at all except for the catnaps.
- A toddler who is still having two day sleeps will generally have one good sleep and one catnap, and a toddler who is around three years of age and getting close to dropping her day sleep will catnap.
catnapverb詞源 1/ˈkætˌnæp/
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To take a catnap (short sleep or nap).
- A toddler who is still having two day sleeps will generally have one good sleep and one catnap, and a toddler who is around three years of age and getting close to dropping her day sleep will catnap.
catnapverb詞源 2/ˈkætˌnæp/
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To kidnap a cat.
- When you suspect your cat's up a tree because he was chased or now locked up in the parked car because someone conspired to catnap him (he is quite the personality), what economic scales could they employ to set ransom?
- The man thought, if she refuses, I could catnap it early one Wednesday afternoon while she's dozing. Leave a bogus ransom note?
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。