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

• I felt wakeful and alert.
  我觉得既清醒又警觉。
• He lay wakeful all night.
  他躺在床上彻夜未眠。
• 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。
• 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。
• Some babies are hungry and wakeful from birth.
  有些婴儿生下来就感到饥饿，很少睡着。
• 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。
• Whendesire blinds the mind with delusion and dust, O thou holy one, thou wakeful, come with thy light and thy thunder.
  当欲念用诱惑与尘埃蒙蔽我的心灵时，呵，觉醒的圣者，请携雷电从天而降。
• '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。
• Several times lately I have lain wakeful when there sounded the first note of the earliest lark; it makes me almost glad of my restless nights.
  近来我多次躺着无法入睡，因为传来最早的云雀的第一声鸣叫；这使我几乎为自己的多少个不眠之夜感到欣然。
• The children are wakeful tonight.
  今晚小孩们还没入睡。