| 单词 | wake |
| 释义 | wakeWord family adjectivewakefulwakelesswakerifeadverbwakefullynounwakefulnesswakerwakingwakemanwake-up callwakeboardwakeboardingverbwake wake1 /weɪk/ ●●● S2 W3 (also wake up) verb (past tensepst woke /wəʊk $ woʊk/, past participlepp woken /ˈwəʊkən $ ˈwoʊ-/) [intransitiveI, transitiveT] 1 WAKE UP/GET UPto stop sleeping, or to make someone stop sleeping 睡醒，醒来；唤醒，弄醒 When she woke, the sun was streaming through the windows. 她醒来时，阳光泻入窗内。 Try not to wake the baby. 尽量不要吵醒宝宝。 wake to Nancy woke to the sound of birds outside her window (=she heard birds singing when she woke). 南希在窗外的鸟鸣声中醒来。 2 wake up phrasal verbphr v a) to stop sleeping, or to make someone stop sleeping 醒；叫醒 James usually wakes up early. 詹姆斯通常醒得早。 wake somebody ↔ up I’ll wake you up when it’s time to leave. 到走的时候我会叫醒你。 b) LISTENto start to listen or pay attention to something 开始听着；开始注意 Wake up (=give me your attention) at the back there! 后面的人注意！ c) wake up and smell the coffee American EnglishAmE spokenREALIZE used to tell someone to recognize the truth or reality of a situation 面对现实，正视事实 Examples from the Corpus Wake up• Brown stains caused by small flames crept inwards. Wake up.• Wake up, he thought. Wake up, my love.• A perfect sculpture of the living flesh. Wake up, he thought.• I still miss it. Wake up nights hungry and see it.• Try to get inside the next one's shields. Wake up, Tundrish. wake up and smell the coffee• While the field has changed with rent control nearly quashed, wake up and smell the coffee of a new day. 3 wake up to something phrasal verbphr v REALIZEto start to realize and understand a danger, an idea etc 开始觉察[认识]到〔危险、想法等〕 It’s time you woke up to the fact that it’s a tough world. 你该清醒地认识到这是一个残酷的世界了。 Examples from the Corpus wake up to • Campaigners round the world are waking up to the threat of Gats. Examples from the Corpus wake• It was impossible to wake anyone in the house.• Then Mrs Dempster woke him as usual with a cup of tea, and he felt better.• But do not try to wake him into a higher level.• The windows of the house glowed suddenly bright, like the eyes of some monster waking in the dark.• Try not to wake the baby if you go in the bedroom.• Dad said he woke up at five this morning.• Fourteenth-century Wandsworth was waking up, deciding it could have another ten minutes, and turning over in its warm straw.• And he woke up with more than just his stomach growling. Death, Water wake2 noun [countableC] 1 in the wake of something AFTERif something, especially something bad, happens in the wake of an event, it happens afterwards and usually as a result of it 〔尤指不好的事〕紧随某事而来；作为某事的后果 Famine followed in the wake of the drought. 旱灾之后，饥荒紧随而来。 Examples from the Corpus in the wake of something• In the wake of Thailand's economic troubles, Malaysia's currency also sank.• They also might enable companies to resume the building projects they abandoned in the wake of the December 1994 peso devaluation.• The move comes in the wake of the recent Echo Inquiry which exposed the potential danger in flats and bedsits.• The park was formed to preserve for ever the spectacular countryside, lakes and river systems created in the wake of the glacier.• Employees dismissed in the wake of such an exercise will usually be redundant.• Gone was the flotilla of rafts that had followed majestically in the wake of the cruiser.• This cosmological event was widely reported in the news media, in the wake of which I heard three paradigmatic responses.• The McDougals remain enmeshed in legal problems in the wake of their conviction with Tucker.• But the unions' unpopularity in the wake of the Winter of Discontent and Labour's electoral decline also weakened the movement. 2 in somebody’s/something’s wake AFTERbehind or after someone or something 紧跟某人/某物后面 The car left clouds of dust in its wake. 汽车驶过，扬起团团尘土。 Examples from the Corpus in somebody’s/something’s wake• They also might enable companies to resume the building projects they abandoned in the wake of the December 1994 peso devaluation.• I call Stan from the airport in San Francisco and wake him up with the bad news.• Here, then, are questions that parents have raised with Child Caring in the wake of the Angeli story.• The morning was cold, in the wake of the north wind that had frozen the fields since mid-March.• The park was formed to preserve for ever the spectacular countryside, lakes and river systems created in the wake of the glacier.• Love is not the impure self-seeking that chokes everything in its wake.• The tornado left hundreds of damaged homes in its wake.• The people in the house were waking up.• To some extent the advances made in our primary schools in the wake of the Plowden Report have been squandered. 3. MXthe time before or after a funeral when friends and relatives meet to remember the dead person 守灵 4. TTW[usually singular] the track made behind a boat as it moves through the water 〔船开过后留下的〕航迹，尾流 Examples from the Corpus wake• On the way up, the slightest connection with the deceased or his family was enough reason to attend a wake.• But if Nader is having problems capturing the magical double-digit support level, his nearest third-party rivals are floundering in his wake.• In its wake, tens of thousands are slipping off, quietly once more, to sanctuaries abroad.• The interest in the sale comes in the wake of Durham County Council's decision to close eight of its homes.• Salomon discards a pay plan in the wake of a string of key departures.• In the wake of the Clause, the Stonewall Trust was set up.• In each half of the wake the eddy consists of two parallel vortex tubes of opposite sense.• I was like a water-skier without the skis, dragged through the wake of an uncompromising culture by my neck. Old English wacan “to wake up” and wacian “to be awake” wake2 1. (1400-1500) Perhaps from Dutch wak or Middle Low German wake, from Old Norse vok “hole in the ice, especially as made by a boat” 2. (1400-1500) → WAKE1 |
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