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vigil

/vij-uhl/US // ˈvɪdʒ əl //UK // (ˈvɪdʒɪl) //

守夜,守夜活动,守望,警报

Related Words

patrol巡逻,巡逻队,巡查,巡视observance观察,遵守,观测,观察力duty职责,责任,任务,义务lookout瞭望台,望风,瞭望,瞭望者notice通知,通知书,通知公告observation观察,观测,观察结果,观察力attention注意,关注,注意力,注意事项surveillance监视,监控,监督,监测guard守护,守卫,守,守住vigilance警觉性,警惕性,警惕,警戒性watchfulness观察力,监视,观察性,监察awareness认识,意识,认知,觉悟monitoring监测,监控,监督,监视eagle eye鹰眼,虎视眈眈,鹰眼看世界,鹰眼看人stake-out盯梢,盯梢调查,盯守,盯梢活动

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : wakefulness maintained for any reason during the normal hours for sleeping.
    • : a watch or a period of watchful attention maintained at night or at other times: The nurse kept her vigil at the bedside of the dying man.
    • : a period of wakefulness from inability to sleep.
    • : Ecclesiastical. a devotional watching, or keeping awake, during the customary hours of sleep.Sometimes vigils. a nocturnal devotional exercise or service, especially on the eve before a church festival.the eve, or day and night, before a church festival, especially an eve that is a fast.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
observance观察,遵守,观测,观察力patrol巡逻,巡逻队,巡查,巡视attention注意,关注,注意力,注意事项awareness认识,意识,认知,觉悟duty职责,责任,任务,义务guard守护,守卫,守,守住lookout瞭望台,望风,瞭望,瞭望者monitoring监测,监控,监督,监视notice通知,通知书,通知公告observation观察,观测,观察结果,观察力surveillance监视,监控,监督,监测vigilance警觉性,警惕性,警惕,警戒性watchfulness观察力,监视,观察性,监察eagle eye鹰眼,虎视眈眈,鹰眼看世界,鹰眼看人nightwatch守夜人,守夜,看夜,守夜者stake-out盯梢,盯梢调查,盯守,盯梢活动

Examples

  • They gather for protests and vigils—not just to honor the dead but to express outrage and foment change.

  • Something they can draw warmth fromPeople have been lighting candles during vigils, funerals, and other somber ceremonies since the times of the ancient Egyptians.

  • There were never any wanted signs outside the police academy or candlelight vigils in suburbia.

  • On Wednesday evening, dozens met up for a vigil and a march starting at Seventh and Kennedy streets NW, where the incident occurred.

  • Fansler once worked as a legal advocate for the local domestic violence shelter, Tundra Women’s Coalition, attended candlelight vigils and, as a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, managed a “Teens Acting Against Violence” program.

  • “If 6,000 people were at the vigil, we hope it will be big,” said university student council President Jalen Ross of the search.

  • The conference had already scheduled a candlelight vigil for those who died of AIDS.

  • Obama happened to be in town the following Thursday, when there was a candlelight vigil for Rushing.

  • Finally, there was a vigil of about ten people standing hand in hand across the street form the clinic praying quietly.

  • After standing vigil at the scene of the crime, Adebolajo also approached cameras that began recording the aftermath.

  • There was no night to bring his vigil or his meditations to a close, but time wore him out at last.

  • Its hiding-place was discovered by angelic music which issued from the mouth of the cave on every vigil of the holy apostle.

  • “We will stay,” said my father; and as terrible a vigil as ever poor creatures kept commenced.

  • It was not until long after midnight that he relaxed his straining, uneasy vigil, and stretched himself to unvexed sleep.

  • This morning I succeeded in eluding my uncle's vigil, and here I am.

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