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awaken

/uh-wey-kuhn/US // əˈweɪ kən //

觉醒,唤醒,苏醒,醒来

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : to awake; waken.

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Examples

  • It should be noted that awakening the nation to the requirement for this new level of representation is indeed a national concern.

  • S&P 500 at the end of 2021Stocks will keep climbing as new vaccines gradually awaken more industries from their pandemic-induced comas.

  • He dreams of a fire breaking out and finds that fire is real when he awakens—and that he has an odd, painful wound on his ankle.

  • More than 1 in 5 Americans say they’ve seen or experienced a ghost, and some self-isolating during the pandemic have claimed their own house spectres have awakened them, shaken their windows or even found long-lost items for them.

  • She would go on to become a law professor and a well-known women’s rights activist attorney — but it was a trip to Sweden that awakened the feminist in RBG.

  • I get lifted by yearning, as if I were going to melt into him again, then I awaken to reality and seek to quiet my feelings.

  • Half a year earlier, he presciently said Sunnis had begun to “awaken” (his word) in Anbar Province.

  • Zionism hardly resolved my problems of modern Jewish identity, but it did awaken my pride in peoplehood.

  • The New York Times has only recently begun to awaken from its 10-year slumber.

  • We need artists and filmmakers to awaken America to the disaster ahead.

  • A ray of Consciousness is passed over that impression and you re-read it, you re-awaken the record.

  • If you are thinking of making an Abstract of a particular book, awaken the utmost interest in regard to it before you begin.

  • Whereas her first impulse had been to awaken someone, preferably Sir Lucien, now her sole desire was to escape undetected.

  • Paula had announced her intention of visiting her children in the course of the afternoon; she would hardly awaken for luncheon.

  • Nor was Mr. Bumbles gloom the only thing calculated to awaken a pleasing melancholy in the bosom of a spectator.