单词 | wake |
释义 | verb | noun wakewake1 /weɪk/ ●●● S1 W3 verb (past tense woke /woʊk/, past participle woken /ˈwoʊkən/) [intransitive, transitive] to stop sleeping, or to make someone stop sleeping SYN wake up: She woke early the next morning. Try not to wake the baby.wake to do something In the morning I woke to find her staring at me. [Origin: Old English wacan to wake up and wacian to be awake]wake up phrasal verb1 wake somebody ↔ up to stop sleeping, or to make someone stop sleeping: I usually wake up at 7:00. I’ll wake you up when it’s time to leave.2 to start to listen or pay attention to something: Wake up! I’m trying to tell you something important.3wake up and smell the coffee spoken used to tell someone to recognize the truth or reality of a situationwake (up) to something phrasal verb1to start to realize and understand a danger, an idea, etc.: You have to wake up to the fact that alcohol is killing you.2to experience something as you are waking up: Nancy woke to the sound of birds outside her window. verb | noun wakewake2 noun [countable] 1in the wake of something if something, especially something bad, happens in the wake of an event, it happens afterward and usually as a result of it: New laws were passed in the wake of the scandal.2in somebody’s/something’s wake behind or after someone or something has moved quickly away: The tornado left hundreds of damaged homes in its wake.3the track or path made behind a boat, car, etc. as it moves along4the time before a funeral when friends and relatives meet to remember the dead person |
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