单词 | awake | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
释义 | awake1 adjectiveawake2 verb awakea‧wake1 /əˈweɪk/ ●●● S2 adjective [not before noun] ![]() ![]() EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorconscious► conscious Collocations awake and able to understand what is happening around you - use this especially about someone who is ill or has had an accident or operation: · The driver was still conscious when the ambulance reached her.· Frank was found lying beside the road, covered in blood but still conscious.barely conscious: · The man was so drunk that he was barely conscious. ► awake especially spoken conscious again after having been given a drug that made you unconscious: · They won't allow us to see her until the anesthesia has worn off and she's fully awake.· Will I be awake by the time I get back to the ward? to not go to bed and not sleep► stay up to not go to bed at the usual time or when other people do, but to stay awake and do things: · You guys go ahead and go to bed. I think I'll stay up for a while.· Kate stayed up all night by his bedside.· Didn't you even stay up on election night?· We went to bed, but Julie and Kate stayed up talking and playing cards.stay up till the small/wee hours (=keep awake until very late or nearly morning): · That night Carl stayed up into the small hours, preparing work for the next day. ► wait up to keep awake and not go to bed at the usual time because you are waiting for someone to come home: · Julie's parents waited up all night but she never came home.· I'll be home late tonight, so don't wait up.wait up for: · I should go - Marie will be waiting up for me. ► awake not sleeping: · John, are you awake? I think I heard someone downstairs.· When she returned to the bedroom, Jamie was awake. wide awake (=awake and not tired at all): · I was still wide awake at 2:00 a.m. when Jody came home.half awake (=only partly awake): · Gretchen wandered into the kitchen, only half awake and looking for coffee.stay awake: · Ellen was determined to stay awake, despite the late hour. to stop someone sleeping► keep somebody awake · Molly kept Paula awake all night talking.· Angry neighbours say they are regularly kept awake by guests leaving the hotel late at night.· These terrifying thoughts sometimes kept me awake for hours. ► keep somebody up to prevent someone from going to bed or from going to sleep when they want to go to sleep: · Arnold would keep us all up with his long, rambling stories.· I'm often kept up by the noise of laughter and music from next door. to sleep badly or be unable to sleep► sleep badly/not sleep well to wake up often during the night, and not feel rested or comfortable: · I'm sorry, I didn't sleep very well last night and it's put me in a bad mood.· They slept badly on the hard bamboo floor. ► can't get to sleep to be unable to go to sleep especially because of noise, worries, pain etc: · If you can't get to sleep, don't get up or have a meal or snack; relax and read quietly instead.· I just couldn't get to sleep, what with all the traffic and people in the street. ► not get much sleep to sleep badly and only for short periods, especially because of noise, worries, pain etc: · The people next door are having a party, so we probably won't get much sleep tonight.· She cried all last night and I didn't get much sleep either. ► be a light sleeper to be someone who is easily woken when there is any movement or noise: · I'm a light sleeper - so I woke up as soon as I heard him come in.· I just hope your dad isn't a light sleeper. ► not sleep a wink informal to not sleep at all during the night, especially because you are worried, angry, upset etc: · I was so worried, I didn't sleep a wink last night.hardly/barely sleep a wink: · He had hardly slept a wink all night, beside himself with jealousy and anger. ► lie awake to be in bed unable to sleep, especially because you are worried or excited about something: · I used to lie awake at night wondering what had happened to her.· I lay awake the whole night after I read the letter, thinking about what it could mean.· We'd lie awake, listening to our parents arguing in the room below. ► toss and turn to keep changing your position in bed because you are unable to sleep and do not feel comfortable: · She had slept badly, tossing and turning before falling into a fitful doze.· Do you fall asleep as soon as your head hits the pillow, or do you toss and turn for hours before dropping off? ► sleepless night a night when you cannot sleep at all: · After a sleepless night, she looked almost as pale and exhausted as Elinor.give somebody a sleepless night (=make someone worry so much that they cannot sleep): · He's given us a few sleepless nights over the years, but we love him.spend a sleepless night: · Tom had spent a sleepless night on the sofa. ► restless night a night during which you sleep badly, keep changing your position in bed, and wake up often: · Another restless night followed, but she determinedly settled down to work again the next morning.· I'd had quite a restless night, and breakfast didn't look appetizing. ► insomnia the inability to sleep at night: · Working outdoors all day certainly did wonders for my insomnia.· a cure for insomniasuffer from insomnia: · He suffered from insomnia and was taking sleeping pills each night.chronic insomnia (=when this happens to you a lot over a long period of time): · My mother was alarmed by my fits of weeping and chronic insomnia. ► sleeplessness an inability to sleep that continues for several nights or more: · His eyes were still red-rimmed from tears and sleeplessness.· Sleeplessness and loss of appetite are common signs of stress. to stop sleeping► wake/wake up to stop sleeping. Wake is more formal than wake up and is usually used in writing.: · She woke early the next morning, and slipped out of the house unseen.· Babies often wake because they are hungry.· The dog suddenly woke up and started barking.wake up at 5 a.m./12 noon etc: · I woke up at five o'clock and couldn't get back to sleep again. ► awake not asleep: be awake: · "Are you awake, Lucy?" she whispered.· I'm usually awake before anyone else.be wide awake (=be completely awake): · It was nearly three in the morning, but Jill was still wide awake.be half awake/barely awake (=be not quite awake): · He listened, only half awake, as the teacher's voice droned on.· Barely awake, we stumbled out of the tent to find ourselves in a foot of water.keep somebody awake: · I've stopped drinking coffee in the evenings, as it tends to keep me awake at night.stay awake: · Some members of the audience were clearly having difficulty staying awake.lie awake (=be unable to sleep at night): · Ben lay awake, worrying about next day's exam. · I've lain awake at nights, turning the problem over and over in my mind. ► come around also come round British to gradually become conscious again after being given a drug or being hit on the head: · She was coming round after her operation, but she still felt dizzy and very sleepy.· Henry's eyelids flickered. 'He's coming around!' Marie cried. ► stir to move slightly and wake for a short time, then go back to sleep again: · As I entered the room, she stirred slightly, then went back to sleep.· Roger momentarily stirred, turned in the bed and murmured something inaudible. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs► stay/keep/remain awake Phrases· I was tired and it was hard to stay awake. ► lie awake· Kate lay awake thinking about what had happened. ► keep somebody awake· The noise of the airplanes kept me awake. ► shake somebody awake· Ben shook me awake and told me the news. adverbs► be wide/fully awake (=completely awake)· I'm never wide awake until I've had a cup of coffee. ► be half awake (=not fully awake)· Most of the people on the train were only half awake. ► be hardly/barely awake· George, barely awake, came stumbling down the stairs. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► half awake![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() · The sound of footsteps on the deck above her head brought her fully awake.· I was fully awake, but kept seeing the snake slide over the log.· She startled fully awake, alert.· Meanwhile, the cognitive dissonance of the experience should shock any uniformitarian in the audience fully awake.· Now fully awake, fright overcame her.· His face fell and he began to sob as he came fully awake and remembered that even that was no longer true. ► still· She looked across to see if her father was still awake.· So for those of you who are still awake, she comes from Montreal.· She'd found the Man of her dreams, except she was still awake.· Michelle was also still awake, uncurtained windows admitting the light of September's last moon.· From somewhere in the lower regions of the house, laughter told Beth that Luther Reynolds was still awake.· At four in the morning, in sheets clammy with sweat, she was still awake.· Ellen was still awake, talking in the stateroom with Rickie, but everyone else seemed asleep.· Adam sighed and switched off the light by the side of the desk so they wouldn't know he was still awake. ► wide· In an instant Fabia was wide awake and, with a drumming heart, she put on the light.· As the train slid slowly into Asansol station, Brother Mariadas, suddenly wide awake, shook me out of my reverie.· The hedgehog caper had somehow affected his pattern of sleep and he was wide awake at six, with nowhere to go.· After an hour, though still wide awake, I crimped the page and turned off the light.· Bright green lizards were scuttling over a clump of tree-roots twice as tall as Alan, and he was wide awake.· Miles and Evan are so wide awake, it is exhausting.· When he came to bed, hours later it seemed, she was wide awake.· Jack was wide awake, in his red silk pajamas and red silk robe. PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► be awake to something 1not sleeping:
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() awake1 adjectiveawake2 verb awakeawake2 verb (past tense awoke /əˈwəʊk $ əˈwoʊk/, past participle awoken /əˈwəʊkən $ əˈwoʊ-/) [intransitive, transitive] ![]() ![]() WORD ORIGINawake2 Verb TableOrigin: Old English awacan (from wacan) and awacian (from wacian); ➔ WAKE1VERB TABLE awake
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► half awake Phrases![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() · In the intervening days Flora walked on air, or lay awake in her dormitory rehearsing the things she would tell Felix. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► wide open/awake/apart 1formal to wake up, or to make someone wake up:
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