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

• After the training of HDT, the athletes 'brain indexes obviously raised compared to the state of sitting quietly before the training, especially the high wakeful degree, temporal lobe synchronization, frontal superiority and electroencephalogram ( EEG) coherence function P3-P4.
  在头低位训练结束后，运动员脑电各指标与训练前坐姿安静状态下有明显提高，尤其是高清醒度、颞同步化、额优势化以及脑电相干函数P3-P4四个指标的差异显著。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• '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。
• 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。
• This alarmed her and made her more wakeful.
  这使她感到惊慌，使她更加警觉了。
• Some babies are hungry and wakeful from birth.
  有些婴儿生下来就感到饥饿，很少睡着。
• 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。