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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• And studies have also shown that when deciding between a nap and an attractive wakeful activity, they choose the activity.
  研究还表明当决定是要小睡还是进行吸引人的提神活动的时候，人们会选择活动一下。
• 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。
• This alarmed her and made her more wakeful.
  这使她感到惊慌，使她更加警觉了。
• I felt wakeful and alert.
  我觉得既清醒又警觉。
• From the psychological perspective, this tale can be read as a wakeful dream of the narrator in which he journeys into the depth of the self. The central subject is the human mind in a great continuous condition of disintegration.
  从心理分析的角度，这个故事可以看作是叙事者在探寻自我时的一个醒来的梦，主题是人的意识在不断的自我分裂的过程。
• The children are wakeful tonight.
  今晚小孩们还没入睡。
• I found myself weary and yet wakeful, tossing restlessly from side to side, seeking for the sleep which would not come.
  我虽感疲倦，可是又不能入睡，辗转反侧，愈想睡愈睡不着。