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wakefulness

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

觉醒,觉醒性,觉醒状态,觉醒期

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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

  • Sara Lee roused her to half wakefulness, no interest and extremely poor English.

  • Then she heard a little restless bird chirp out its wakefulness from a nest in the ivy round the walls of the house.

  • It was long before he fell asleep; but when he did, the sleep was more terrible than the haunted wakefulness.

  • He picked her up and fanned and patted her into wakefulness again and then turned desperately to the window and looked down.

  • Vienna is a place for enjoyment rather than for work, for pensive dreaming rather than for sober wakefulness of mind.