One night at dinner with the kids, Pete completely zoned out.

一天晚上，在和孩子们吃晚饭时，皮特完全失了神。

Instinct is also at work on those occasions when people have completely zoned out.

当人们完全思想游离的时候，本能也在起作用。

It's like a war zone out here.

这里发生了激烈交锋。

It's not that time you zoned out while reading then woke up with a star when your forehead hit the desk.

这并不是说你在阅读时走神，醒来后额头撞在了桌子上，你好像会看到一颗星星。

Einstein is admittedly a pretty high bar, but zoning out can help mere mortals, too.

诚然，爱因斯坦是一个相当高的门槛，但开小差也能帮到普通人。

So imagine hundreds of people staring at screens and zoning out in meetings.

所以想想看数百人都在眼盯屏幕或在会上发呆。

And wow, I can tell that the pie chart of people who are totally zoned out is a perfect circle right now.

哇，我可以看出，现在完全走神的人的饼状图是一个完美的圆圈。

After a long day, some people just like to zone out and watch TV.

在漫长的一天之后，有些人喜欢看着电视发呆。

Instead of zoning out for the whole night, he took short naps during the daytime.

他并不会睡一整夜，而是在白天小睡一会儿。

Does your friend zone out more often than usual when you're talking to them?

当你和你的朋友交谈时，他们是否比平时更容易走神？

Then Adele zones out, staring at her hands. She can spend hours staring at her hands.

之后，阿黛尔走神了，盯着自己的手。她可以一连几个小时盯着自己的手。

That doesn't mean the driver can zone out, there are strict rules for the person behind the wheel.

这并不等于可以将驾驶员排除在外，对于驾驶者而言有一套严格的规定。

" Rather than zoning out, I think skateboarding improves the ability to think even just by a little bit" .

" 我认为玩滑板可以提高思考能力，而不是走神，哪怕只是提高一点点。"

Then I just zone out and it's involuntary I try to control it but a lot of times it happens to me.

然后我就走神儿了，这是下意识的，我试过控制这种想法，但很多时候这还是发生了。

If you know, it's my boyfriend who obviously has zoned out who wasn't listening to what I was saying and then says what, sorry, can you say that again?

你想想看，如果我的男朋友从来不听我讲话，然后问我，啥，你能再说一遍么？

You know, those random ideas that pop into your head in the shower or when you zone out while listening to something boring.

那些在你洗澡的时候，或者当你在听一些无聊的东西的时候突然冒出来的想法。

To zone out means to stop paying attention and not see or hear what is around you for a short period of time.

分神的意思是一小段时间内容停止关注并且看不到也听不到周围的事物。

I walked the dog earlier and zoned out for I don't know how long.

我早些时候遛过狗，不知道走了多久。

Maybe if you're feeling tired in class, and the teacher talks for a long period of time, you might start to zone out.

会也许如果你在课堂上感到疲倦，而老师讲了很长时间，你可能会开始分神。

I just zoned out and suddenly time had passed and I'd solved a nice number of problems.

我刚刚走神，突然间时间就过去了，我解决了很多问题。