释义 |
wakeaday, wake-a-day ? nonce-wd.|ˈweɪkədeɪ| [f. wake v. + day n., after workaday.] Of life, etc.: such as one wakes up to each day; that is experienced by ordinary people; regular.
1893G. B. Shaw Let. 21 Aug. (1965) I. 401 All these terrible combats..on behalf of Wilde, Pinero, [Frank] Harris &c. &c. &c. belong to Piona and not to the wake-a-day world. 1951M. McLuhan Mech. Bride (1967) 97/2 Synthetic gods and goddesses (stars) appear to assume the roles of our wakeaday existence. 1962― Gutenberg Galaxy 269 The electric puts the mythic or collective dimension of human experience fully into the conscious wake-a-day world. |