Wakefulness
['wekfəlnɪs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world; 'consciousness during wakefulness in a sane person is pretty well ordered and familiar'.
(noun.) a temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep; 'accept your wakefulness and sleep in its own contrary way is more likely to come'.
阿伦編輯--From WordNet
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Sleeplessness, INSOMNIA, want of sleep, Indisposition to sleep.[2]. Watchfulness, vigilance, wariness.
編輯:纳内特
例句/造句/用法:
- Her aunt Bertram had recollected her on this occasion with an unusual degree of wakefulness. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- And she was so hard awake, it was almost frightening--a hard, metallic wakefulness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I knew that I was on Mars; not once did I question either my sanity or my wakefulness. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- He drove on in a strange new wakefulness, the tension of his consciousness broken. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She had been awake when he first entered her room, but had kept her eyes closed, so that even her wakefulness should not seem to reproach him. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- For me, the watches of that long night passed in ghastly wakefulness; strained by dread: such dread as children only can feel. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He would keep his councillors up to unearthly hours, and betray a simple pride in his superior wakefulness. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He tried to steal in, but was baffled by your wakefulness. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
整理:贾丝廷