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

• From your breast you have fed us with life but not immortality, that is why your eyes are ever wakeful.
  从你的胸乳里，你是以生命而不是以不朽来哺育我们，因此你的眼睛永远是警醒的。
• I had a wakeful night because he warned me that I should be watchful.
  我一夜未眠，因为他警告我要小心。
• 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。
• Research on sleep deprivation suggests that the IQ drop caused by electronic obsession is also equivalent to a wakeful night.
  关于剥夺睡眠的研究表明因为痴迷于电子产品而造成的智力衰退相当于一夜失眠。
• He lay wakeful all night.
  他躺在床上彻夜未眠。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 'The game of that is, that they always leave it open with a catch, so that the dog, who's got a bed in here, may walk up and down the passage when he feels wakeful.
  妙就妙在他们老是让门开着，用搭钩挂住，狗在那地方有个窝，这样一来它睡不着的时候可以在走廊里来回溜达。
• Some babies are hungry and wakeful from birth.
  有些婴儿生下来就感到饥饿，很少睡着。