wakeful

英 [ˈweɪkfl]

美 [ˈweɪkfl]

adj.  失眠的; 不能入睡的; 没怎么睡的; 不眠的

BNC.37239 / COCA.31872

牛津词典

adj.

• 失眠的；不能入睡的
  not sleeping; unable to sleep
  1. He lay wakeful all night.
     他躺在床上彻夜未眠。
• 没怎么睡的；不眠的
  spent with little or no sleep
  1. She had spent many wakeful nights worrying about him.
     她度过了许多不眠之夜，为他担心。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 难以入睡的;失眠的;睡眠轻的
  Someone who iswakefulfinds it difficult to get to sleep and wakes up very often when they should be sleeping.
  1. Wakeful babies will often continue to need little sleep as they grow older.
     通常睡眠轻的婴儿长大后仍然只需要较少的睡眠。

英英释义

adj

• carefully observant or attentive
  1. a policy of open-eyed awareness
  2. the vigilant eye of the town watch
  3. there was a watchful dignity in the room
  4. a watchful parent with a toddler in tow
  Synonym:argus-eyedopen-eyedvigilant
• marked by full consciousness or alertness
  1. worked every moment of my waking hours
  Synonym:waking
• (of sleep) easily disturbed
  1. in a light doze
  2. a light sleeper
  3. a restless wakeful night
  Synonym:light

双语例句

• It is the wakeful experience of life, an alert participation in the ongoing process of living.
  它是对生命的一种清醒的体验，一种对生命永恒的过程的警觉性的参与。
• The favourite pastime of the nocturnally wakeful is worrying.
  夜不能寐者最喜欢的消遣方式颇为令人担忧。
• From your breast you have fed us with life but not immortality, that is why your eyes are ever wakeful.
  从你的胸乳里，你是以生命而不是以不朽来哺育我们，因此你的眼睛永远是警醒的。
• I had a wakeful night because he warned me that I should be watchful.
  我一夜未眠，因为他警告我要小心。
• The very act of concentration seemed to make me more wakeful than ever, and I would pass hours in tormenting sleeplessness.
  高度集中的精力让我比任何时候都清醒，我不得不在折磨人的失眠中捱过几个钟头。
• But one of the girls who occupied an adjoining bed was more wakeful than Tess, and would insist upon relating to the latter various particulars of the homestead into which she had just entered.
  不过，在和她毗邻的一张床上睡觉的女孩子，不像苔丝那样很快就能入睡，坚持要讲讲她刚刚加入进来的这户人家的一些琐事。
• There have been many studies on the space characteristics in short-duration and the characteristics of day and night activity. However, the long-time continuous observations of locomotor activity in free and wakeful animals are still lack.
  迄今，对短时间内动物自发活动空间特点以及对粗略的昼夜活动特点有较多研究，但是，缺乏对在自由状态下较长时间清醒动物自发活动的连续观察。
• I felt wakeful and alert.
  我觉得既清醒又警觉。
• And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul.
  苦闷的灵魂永无清醒的一天。
• 'The game of that is, that they always leave it open with a catch, so that the dog, who's got a bed in here, may walk up and down the passage when he feels wakeful.
  妙就妙在他们老是让门开着，用搭钩挂住，狗在那地方有个窝，这样一来它睡不着的时候可以在走廊里来回溜达。