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wakeful

/weyk-fuhl/US // ˈweɪk fəl //UK // (ˈweɪkfʊl) //

清醒的,醒着的,觉醒的,醒着的人

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep: Excitement made the children wakeful.
    • : characterized by absence of sleep: a wakeful night.
    • : watchful; alert; vigilant: a wakeful foe.

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Examples

  • Vast feelings that slide, beyond command, beneath the wakeful tending of our days.

  • Taking time to space out—whether by showering, pulling weeds, or petting a dog—provides an opportunity for what psychologists call wakeful rest.

  • The boy was sleeping soundly, and little Carry lay quietly wakeful upon her mother's lap.

  • The next day, Bussy left Angers before the most wakeful bourgeois had had their breakfast.

  • On mornings when I happen to be wakeful the observations I make are not always through the tent flap.

  • When I was alone, I lay wakeful through the noisy hours, waiting for daylight.

  • I was fevered with happiness; the past and future reeled before my wakeful vision.