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

• The person inside the site is not only in a system composed of nature and ego but also in a completely abstract self wakeful ideology.
  处于场所中的人，既处在自然与自我的创造物交织构成的体系之中，又处于一种完全抽象的自我觉醒的思想体系中。
• 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。
• Research on sleep deprivation suggests that the IQ drop caused by electronic obsession is also equivalent to a wakeful night.
  关于剥夺睡眠的研究表明因为痴迷于电子产品而造成的智力衰退相当于一夜失眠。
• Misery knocks at thy door, and her message is that thy lord is wakeful, and he calls thee to the love-tryst through the darkness of night.
  悲哀在你门上敲著，她传话说你的主醒著呢，他叫你在夜的黑暗中奔赴爱的约会。
• Anxiety [ The pain] kept me wakeful.
  忧虑[疼痛]使我睡不着。
• At each change in engine sound she grew more wakeful.
  她随着发动机声的每一变化而越来越清醒了。
• 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。
• And studies have also shown that when deciding between a nap and an attractive wakeful activity, they choose the activity.
  研究还表明当决定是要小睡还是进行吸引人的提神活动的时候，人们会选择活动一下。
• 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。
• 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。