| 单词 | wake |
| 释义 | wake 1. v. & n. --v (past woke or waked; past part. woken or waked) 1. intr. & tr. (often foll. by up) cease or cause to cease to sleep. 2. intr. & tr. (often foll. by up) become or cause to become alert, attentive, or active (needs something to wake him up). 3. intr. (archaic except as waking adj. & n.) be awake (in her waking hours; waking or sleeping). 4. tr. disturb (silence or a place) with noise; make re-echo. 5. tr. evoke (an echo). 6. intr. & tr. rise or raise from the dead. --n 1. a watch beside a corpse before burial; lamentation and (less often) merrymaking in connection with this. 2. (usu. in pl.) an annual holiday in (industrial) northern England. 3. hist. a a vigil commemorating the dedication of a church. b a fair or merrymaking on this occasion. Phrases and idioms be a wake-up (often foll. by to) Austral. sl. be alert or aware. wake-robin 1. Brit. an arum, esp. the cuckoo-pint. 2. US any plant of the genus Trillium. Derivatives waker n. Etymology: OE wacan (recorded only in past woc), wacian (weak form), rel. to WATCH: sense 'vigil' perh. f. ON 2. n. 1. the track left on the water's surface by a moving ship. 2. turbulent air left behind a moving aircraft etc. Phrases and idioms in the wake of behind, following, as a result of, in imitation of. Etymology: prob. f. MLG f. ON v{ouml}k hole or opening in ice |
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