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

• 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。
• The role of basolateral amygdaloid nuclei ( BLN) in sleep and wakeful state ( W) was investigated with polysomnography.
  采用多道睡眠描记方法，观察了基底外侧杏仁核（BLN）在睡眠-觉醒调节中的作用。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The very act of concentration seemed to make me more wakeful than ever, and I would pass hours in tormenting sleeplessness.
  高度集中的精力让我比任何时候都清醒，我不得不在折磨人的失眠中捱过几个钟头。
• Whendesire blinds the mind with delusion and dust, O thou holy one, thou wakeful, come with thy light and thy thunder.
  当欲念用诱惑与尘埃蒙蔽我的心灵时，呵，觉醒的圣者，请携雷电从天而降。
• The favourite pastime of the nocturnally wakeful is worrying.
  夜不能寐者最喜欢的消遣方式颇为令人担忧。
• The children are wakeful tonight.
  今晚小孩们还没入睡。