Awakening
[ə'weɪkənɪŋ] or [ə'wekənɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of waking; 'it was an early awakening'; 'it was the waking up he hated most'.
埃米尔編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Awaken
(a.) Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn.
(n.) The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.
編輯:特伦斯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Revival.
整理:薇尔玛
例句/造句/用法:
- What with loss of sleep, arduous exercise, and a full belly, Tarzan of the Apes slept the sun around, awakening about noon of the following day. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- A plan may come with our awakening. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The awakening was almost feline in its stealthiness. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He is an awakening man; he ought to see Miss Crawley before she rests this night. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- This graver world of 1920 does seem to be awakening to the truth that there are realities worth seeking and evils not to be tolerated. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Their voices had instinctively dropped lower, though at first they had taken no particular care to avoid awakening Clym. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- We say it is a moral awakening. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Do not deceive me, by awakening hopes that are not to be fulfilled. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Several of the pleasure-car manufacturers took advantage of the awakening interest and added a commercial vehicle section to their plants. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I have to thank these pages for awakening the finest sensibilities in my nature--nothing more. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Death, waste, hunger, and disease are very rife to-day; the world is full of physical evils, but there is this mental awakening to set against them. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The month of March arrived, and the heath showed its first signs of awakening from winter trance. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Before the shades of evening had closed around us, I had a dozen awakening letters for my aunt, instead of a dozen awakening books. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- To the invention of wood-working machinery we are also indebted for the awakening of interest in the qualities of wood for a vast number of artistic purposes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- That forces exist to-day which carry with them solutions is evident to anyone who has watched the labor movement and the woman's awakening. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- These violent awakenings must have been annoying to Oliver, but he never complained. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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