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awake

/uh-weyk/US // əˈweɪk //UK // (əˈweɪk) //

清醒的,觉醒,醒来,觉醒的

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Definitions

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    a·woke [uh-wohk] /əˈwoʊk/ or a·waked, a·woke or a·waked or a·wo·ken [uh-woh-kuhn], /əˈwoʊ kən/, a·wak·ing.

    • : to wake up; rouse from sleep: I awoke at six with a feeling of dread.
    • : to rouse to action; become active: His flagging interest awoke.
    • : to come or bring to an awareness; become cognizant: She awoke to the realities of life.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : waking; not sleeping.
    • : vigilant; alert: They were awake to the danger.

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Examples

  • She would go home and tell her now-husband about it and lay awake at night thinking about it.

  • To be woke is, in theory, to be awake to issues of social and racial justice.

  • Johnson was asleep when she came in, but the physician awoke her easily.

  • While it’s unknown what kind of response Lukashenko expected when Belarus awoke to the news, the election results beggared belief to such an extreme that the country exploded.

  • Whenever that rat tried to rest, the scientists spun the table, nudging both rats awake and sometimes pushing them into the water.

  • Now half-awake, we need all the help we can get in understanding our situation.

  • I worked a lot of 11-7 shifts, and so had to stay awake, although most of the nights other people slept.

  • My partner Brandon and I awake at the crack of dawn for a canoe ride on the milky blue glacial waters of Lake Louise.

  • How many times have your stories kept me awake at night wondering, like a child in the dark, what monsters lurk nearby?

  • But the moment suggests to him that if he is awake, then his reality is truly stranger and more menacing than he ever imagined.

  • The Café tender was asleep in his chair; the porter had gone off; the sentinel alone kept awake on his post.

  • Finding him awake, he sat by his side and, with the earnestness of a nursery-maid, patted him off to slumber.

  • Or rather I suppose I was only half awake; but you seemed to open that door so easily that it quite startled me.

  • She slept lightly at first, half awake and drowsily attentive to the things about her.

  • She lay wide awake composing a letter which was nothing like the one which she wrote next day.