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

• 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。
• 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。
• It is the wakeful experience of life, an alert participation in the ongoing process of living.
  它是对生命的一种清醒的体验，一种对生命永恒的过程的警觉性的参与。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The children are wakeful tonight.
  今晚小孩们还没入睡。
• But one of the girls who occupied an adjoining bed was more wakeful than Tess, and would insist upon relating to the latter various particulars of the homestead into which she had just entered.
  不过，在和她毗邻的一张床上睡觉的女孩子，不像苔丝那样很快就能入睡，坚持要讲讲她刚刚加入进来的这户人家的一些琐事。
• He lay wakeful all night.
  他躺在床上彻夜未眠。