| 单词 | awakening |
| 释义 | awakening (əweɪkənɪŋ ) Word forms: awakenings 1. countable noun [usually singular] The awakening of a feeling or realization is the start of it. ...the awakening of national consciousness in people. [+ of] Synonyms: stirring up, birth, waking, waking up 2. rude awakening phrase If you have a rude awakening, you are suddenly made aware of an unpleasant fact. It was a rude awakening to learn after I left home that I wasn't so special anymore. Idioms: a rude awakening a situation in which you suddenly realize the unpleasant truth about something Instead of quick profits, Johnson got a rude awakening. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: political awakening It brought about a political awakening of the most elemental kind. Times, Sunday Times Long twists her political awakening in with her new-found singledom and the onset of her thirties. Times, Sunday Times Like others before him, it led to a political awakening. Times, Sunday Times They slowly find a collective voice, but this political awakening seems to take for ever, and they remain symbols rather than fully fledged characters. Times, Sunday Times It was an exhilarating intellectual and political awakening. Globe and Mail They went on to note similarities about their spiritual awakening. Times, Sunday Times So was this really part of a wider spiritual awakening? Christianity Today Not so much a spiritual awakening as a falling asleepening. Times, Sunday Times He loses some of his lightness of touch as he describes a rainforest spiritual awakening that resists the comic treatment. Times, Sunday Times I think we'll see a spiritual awakening in this country. Christianity Today Translations: Chinese: 觉醒 Japanese: 目覚め |
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