It was necessary, therefore, to invent instruments that neither slumbered nor slept.

因此，有必要发明一种仪器，既不打盹儿，也不睡觉。

Driving time could be given over to working, snoozing or browsing the web.

开车的可以用于工作，打盹或上网冲浪。

I spent most of the afternoon taking a nap.

我下午的大部分都在打盹。

We went out in the afternoon looking for lions and found a pride napping.

下午我们出去寻找狮子，找到了一个正在打盹的狮群。

I mastered napping, sleeping in hammocks, hot tubs.

我学会了打盹，在吊床上睡觉，泡热水澡。

" Do it again, " Dudley ordered. Uncle Vernon rapped the glass smartly with his knuckles, but the snake just snoozed on. " This is boring, " Dudley moaned. He shuffled away.

“再敲一遍。”达力命令说。弗农姨父用指节狠狠地敲玻璃，可大蟒继续打盹。　“真烦人。”达力抱了一句，拖着脚慢慢吞吞地走开了。

The portraits of the headmasters and headmistresses were snoozing in their frames, heads lolling back in armchairs or against the edge of their pictures.

男女老校长的肖像正在照片里打盹，他们有的懒洋洋地把脑袋靠在带扶手的椅子上，有的则倚在肖像的边框上。

Perhaps he started to read, or to doze, or to regret some harsh remark made in the office that morning.

也许他开始了读报，或是打盹，或是为那天早晨在办公室说了严厉的话而感到后悔。

They saw a worn couch, with an elderly couple dozing on it.

他们看见一个破烂的沙发上坐着一对正在打盹的夫妇。

The trick is keeping your naps brief enough, or long enough, so that you don't wake up in the middle of a sleep cycle and feel groggy or fatigued.

打盹的诀窍在于，要保足够短暂，或足够长，这样你就不会在睡眠周期当中醒来，感到昏昏沉沉或疲惫。

You've been watching people all day and I guarantee you, like ping pong balls – bam-bam-bam and everytime you have an idea, what do you do? – Hit the snooze!

你已经看人看了一整天，我保证，就像乒乓球 — — 邦、邦、邦 — — 你有这些想法。。。每次你有一个想法，你做什麽？ — — 按下打盹按钮 ！

But when your warehouse is bigger than 94 football fields, and your handling 2 million packages a day, there's no room for a snooze, at the UPS Worldport hub in Kentucky.

但是当你的仓库超过94个足球场大小，你在肯塔基州的UPS世界港口中心，每天要处理200万个包裹，没有打盹的空。

Then he sees a Fox taking a nap under a tree.

然后他看到一只狐狸在树下打盹。

I can usually get by with around seven hours a night but I do like to have a nap – a short sleep – in the afternoon, when I'm not working of course.

我通常每晚能睡大约7个小，不过我确实喜欢在下午打盹——小睡一会儿——当然是在没工作的候。

Yes. Occasionally, you might see one stretched out flat in the sun for a snooze.

是的。偶尔你会看到一只在阳光下平躺着打盹。

Mr. McKee awoke from his doze and started in a daze toward the door.

麦基先生打盹醒了，懵懵懂懂地朝门口走。

Yes, you might have heard of a 'cat nap' which is kind of similar, but it's not associated with work and we have other words to talk about sleep like 'snooze' or 'to nod off' and many others.

是的，你可能听说过类似的 cat nap，但它与工作无关，我们还有其他词来形容睡眠，比如“打盹儿”或“打瞌睡”等等。

Uncle Vernon rapped the glass smartly with his knuckles, but the snake just snoozed on.

弗农姨父用指节狠狠地敲玻璃，可大蟒继续打盹。

Then he lies back and takes a nap.

然后蚱蜢躺下来打盹。

The baby mouse was alarmed to see the large lion taking a nap.

小老鼠惊恐地看到那只打盹的狮子体型是如此庞大。