drowse
v
1 [I] be half asleep 假寐; 半醒半睡; 打瞌睡.
2 (phr v) drowse sth away spend (time) half asleep 半醒半睡地度过(时间)
drowse away a hot afternoon 打著瞌睡度过炎热的下午. drowse, n [sing]
state of being drowsy 假寐; 瞌睡: in a drowse 在打瞌睡.
is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the vernacular of his family.