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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I am eager and wakeful, I am a stranger in a strange land.
  我切望而又清醒，我是一个异乡的异客。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。