Vigilant
['vɪdʒɪl(ə)nt] or ['vɪdʒələnt]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. Watchful, circumspect, on the lookout, wide awake, on the alert.
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例句/造句/用法:
- These policemen follow the executive officer's boat from shore to ship and from ship to shore and watch his dark maneuvres with a vigilant eye. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The forewarning of my instinct was but fulfilled, when I discovered her, all cold and vigilant, perched like a white bird on the outside of the bed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- However, Versailles patrols drove them in again; as the vigilant Lecointre had strictly charged them to do. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mr. Bucket came out again, exhorting the others to be vigilant, darkened his lantern, and once more took his seat. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Though, to do him justice, he lay awake many an hour, silent and without stirring, unwilling to awaken his kind and vigilant nurse. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Be you vigilant also, Lina. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Nothing is more vigilant and inventive than our passions; and nothing is more obvious, than the convention for the observance of these rules. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman, and Miss Peecher kept him on double duty over Mr Bradley Headstone. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- General Weitzel will keep vigilant watch upon his front, and if found at all practicable to break through at any point, he will do so. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He is always vigilant and always near me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Nothing could be less demonstrative than the friendship of the elder lady, but also nothing could be more vigilant, assiduous, untiring. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- To be vigilant in making themselves respected. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
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