siesta

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /siˈɛstə/    美 /siˈɛstə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A nap, especially an afternoon one taken during the hottest part of the day in some cultures. countable
    — One humid afternoon a visitor did arrive to disturb Rottcodd as he lay deeply hammocked, for his siesta was broken sharply by a rattling of the door handle […]
  2. Laid-back attitudes to work or laziness, especially by a Hispanic person. attributive,offensive,sometimes
    — Lest we think all of this is due to the proverbial inefficiency of the Latin American - 'siesta people' - we can see some of these signs, perhaps in a less dramatic way, in European societies and in the celebrated 'tigers' of South East Asia.
动词 v.
  1. to take a siesta; to nap. intransitive

词形变化

siestas plural siestas present,singular,third-person siestaing participle,present siestaed participle,past siestaed past

词汇关系

近义词
shut-eye

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Spanish siesta, from Latin sexta (“the sixth hour from dawn, noon, midday”). Doublet of sext.
词源 2
Borrowed from Spanish siesta, from Latin sexta (“the sixth hour from dawn, noon, midday”). Doublet of sext.
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