wakefulness

英

美

n.  觉醒；不眠

医学

BNC.26657 / COCA.24049

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

noun

• a periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world
  1. consciousness during wakefulness in a sane person is pretty well ordered and familiar
• the process of paying close and continuous attention
  1. wakefulness, watchfulness, and bellicosity make a good hunter
  2. vigilance is especially susceptible to fatigue
  Synonym:watchfulnessvigilancealertness
• a temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep
  1. accept your wakefulness and sleep in its own contrary way is more likely to come
  Synonym:sleeplessness

双语例句

• Through burned out eyes, tormented mind moribund in that fuzzy area between sleep and wakefulness, he watched the pulsating digits of the clock ticking over.
  透过烧毁的眼睛，折磨奄奄一息的心在这模糊区之间的睡眠和清醒，他观看了脉动数字时钟滴答。
• A neurotransmitter associated with voluntary movement, sleep and wakefulness.
  一种神经递质与自主运动、睡眠有关。
• The feeling one has for his lover during wakefulness may be ( blooded out) or intensified by sleep, in either case, the feeling changes.
  一个人清醒时对爱人的感觉会因睡眠减少或增加，但那感觉都改变了。
• Process C: Maintains our wakefulness during the day.
  以及C进程：在白天让我们保持清醒。
• Researchers have theorized that sleep may restore some chemical that is drained during periods of wakefulness.
  一些研究人员提出的理论认为，睡眠可以恢复人在不睡觉时失去的某些化学物质。
• I was jolted into wakefulness by a bright light.
  我被耀眼的亮光猛地弄醒。
• This is the sort of mixed-up mental state I am familiar with from bouts of wakefulness at three in the morning.
  这是我所熟悉的一种头脑不清的精神状态，在凌晨三点失眠时多次出现。
• Through generations, stress has effectively enhanced human survival because of its specific traits that jog your wakefulness and develop bodily functions.
  代代相传，压力有效的加强了人类的生存能力，因为其特殊的特性能慢慢推动你的觉醒和增强身体机能。
• The energy increase may then power restorative processes absent during wakefulness, because brain cells consume large amounts of energy just performing daily waking functions.
  那么能量的增加可能为清醒时所缺乏的恢复过程提供了动力。因为大脑细胞仅在执行各种日常觉醒功能时就要消耗大量的能量。
• Recent studies on humans have shown that the amount of artificial indoor light to which people are exposed per day can resynchronize the body's cycle of sleep and wakefulness.
  最近有关人类的研究显示每天人们暴漏在的人工室内光线的总量可以重置人体的睡眠和清醒周期。