trance
noun /trɑːns/
  /træns/
- [countable] a state in which somebody seems to be asleep but is aware of what is said to them, for example if they are hypnotized昏睡状态;催眠状态 - to go/fall into a trance进入/陷入昏睡状态 
- When the subject has gone into a deep trance, they are taken back to an earlier stage of their life.当实验对象陷入昏睡状态后,他们被带回到自己生命的早期阶段。 
 Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- light
- hypnotic
- …
 - enter
- enter into
- fall into
- …
 - state
 - in a trance
 
- to go/fall into a trance
- [countable] a state in which you are thinking so much about something that you do not notice what is happening around you出神;发呆 - She drove, gripping the wheel in a trance, hardly aware of her surroundings.她开着车,神情恍惚地握着方向盘,简直没留意置身何处。 
 Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- light
- hypnotic
- …
 - enter
- enter into
- fall into
- …
 - state
 - in a trance
 
- She drove, gripping the wheel in a trance, hardly aware of her surroundings.
- (also trance music)[uncountable] a type of electronic dance music with hypnotic rhythms and sounds迷幻音乐 
词源Middle English (originally as a verb in the sense ‘be in a trance’): from Old French transir ‘depart, fall into trance’, from Latin transire ‘go across’.