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 found myself weary and yet wakeful, tossing restlessly from side to side, seeking for the sleep which would not come.
  我虽感疲倦，可是又不能入睡，辗转反侧，愈想睡愈睡不着。
• 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 children are wakeful tonight.
  今晚小孩们还没入睡。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Anxiety [ The pain] kept me wakeful.
  忧虑[疼痛]使我睡不着。
• Deciding that sleep would come when it was ready, he lay relaxed and wakeful, letting his mind roam.
  他认定入睡不能强求，到时候就会睡着，于是精神放松，清醒地躺着，任思绪浮想联翩。
• From the psychological perspective, this tale can be read as a wakeful dream of the narrator in which he journeys into the depth of the self. The central subject is the human mind in a great continuous condition of disintegration.
  从心理分析的角度，这个故事可以看作是叙事者在探寻自我时的一个醒来的梦，主题是人的意识在不断的自我分裂的过程。
• 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。