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核心畫面

Picture someone going under for fifteen or twenty minutes in the afternoon — still in the chair, shoes on, never really went to bed. Short, light, and easy to be woken out of: that is the picture the sleep-side of nap keeps coming back to.

可以想成一個人下午在椅子上闔眼十幾二十分鐘：沒換衣服、沒上床，鞋子還穿著，旁邊一有動靜就會醒。短、淺、隨時可以被叫起…更多收起可以想成一個人下午在椅子上闔眼十幾二十分鐘：沒換衣服、沒上床，鞋子還穿著，旁邊一有動靜就會醒。短、淺、隨時可以被叫起來——nap 在「睡」這一邊的用法，都繞著這個畫面走。

From the picture

布面上的絨毛

跟「小睡」沒有意思上的關聯，只是後來拼成了同一個字；把它當成另一個字來記會比較輕鬆。

cloth texture (nap) · noun · B2

The short soft hairs on the surface of some cloth or leather, all lying in one direction.

（布料的）絨毛；毛面

Also in this word

short sleep · noun · A2

a short sleep, especially during the day

小睡；午覺

take a nap · verb · A2

To sleep for a short while during the day rather than at night.

小睡；打盹

原始詞典資料15 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

napverb詞源 1/næp/

  • 1

    To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.

  • 2

    To be off one's guard.

    • The regulators were caught napping by the financial collapse.
    • I took thee napping, unprepared.

napnoun詞源 2/næp/

  • 1

    A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.

napnoun詞源 3/næp/

  • 1

    A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.

    • I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.
    • On his long, gaunt body, he carried no spare flesh, no superfluous beard, his chin having a soft, economical nap to it, like the worn nap of his broad-brimmed hat.
  • 2

    The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile.

    • If the fabric has a nap, make sure all pieces are cut with the nap going the same direction.
    • Instead of grinding the pistons straight around the axis, they are ground diagonally with a special-built machine. As a result, the “nap” of the metal is turned in such a way that, when it meets the “nap” of the cylinder wall, both surfaces quickly develop a high finish which removes the danger of scoring a piston.

napverb詞源 3/næp/

  • 1

    To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).

napnoun詞源 4/næp/

  • 1

    A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.

    • 4. Races run on English, Welsh or Scottish racecourses. This criterion was included so that media tipsters ^([sic]) nap selections in general could be analysed; the source of naps, The Racing Rag 'tipster table', summarises the nap selections of newspaper tipsters, who restrict their selection to horses running at racecourses in these countries.
  • 2

    card-gamesgamesA card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.

  • 3

    A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.

napverb詞源 5/næp/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo grab; to nab.

napverb詞源 6/næp/

  • 1

    cookingfoodlifestyleTo cover (something) with a sauce. (usually in the passive)

    • Vanilla ice cream topped with a poached or canned pear half, napped with chocolate sauce, and garnished with toasted sliced almonds.

napnoun詞源 7/næp/

  • 1

    A cup, bowl.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。