| 释义 |
awaken/əˈweik(ə)n/v. 1 v. tr. & intr. = AWAKE v. 2 tr. (often foll. by 常后跟 to) make aware 使意识到；使认识到 [Old English onwœcnan etc. (as A-2, WAKEN)]■ Usage 用法说明 Awake and awaken are largely interchangeable, but awaken is much rarer than awake as an intransitive verb, and has an extra transitive usage (sense 2 above), as in The strike had awakened them to the possibilities of resistance. awake 和 awaken 在多数情况下可以通用，但是 awaken 较 awake 更少用作不及物动词，并有一种特别的及物用法(即上述释义 2) ，例如 The strike had awakened them to the possibilities of resistance 罢工使他们意识到抵制的可能性。 |