英语词汇“awake”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adjective | verb

awakeawake1 /əˈweɪk/ ●●● S2 adjective [not before noun]

COLLOCATIONS► wide awake

I was wide awake (=completely awake) until 3 a.m.

► kept us awake

The noise from the party kept us awake (=stopped us from sleeping).

► stay awake

I drank some coffee to try and stay awake.

► lay awake

My mother lay awake worrying all night.

1not sleeping: Are you awake? I was wide awake (=completely awake) until 3 a.m. The noise from the party kept us awake (=stopped us from sleeping). I drank some coffee to try and stay awake. My mother lay awake worrying all night.2be awake to something to understand a situation and its possible effects: Suddenly the world was awake to the dangers of nuclear weapons.

adjective | verb

awakeawake2 ●○○ verb (past tense awoke /əˈwoʊk/, past participle awoken /əˈwoʊkən/) [intransitive, transitive]

ETYMOLOGYawake²

Origin: Old English awacan (from wacan) and awacian (from wacian); ➔ WAKE¹

VERB TABLE

awake

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	awake
	he, she, it	awakes
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	awoke
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have awoken
	he, she, it	has awoken
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had awoken
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will awake
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have awoken

Continuous Form
Present	I	am awaking
	he, she, it	is awaking
	you, we, they	are awaking
Past	I, he, she, it	was awaking
	you, we, they	were awaking
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been awaking
	he, she, it	has been awaking
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been awaking
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be awaking
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been awaking

1formal to wake up, or to make someone wake up: I awoke, feeling that someone was nearby.2literary if something awakes an emotion or if an emotion awakes, you suddenly begin to feel that emotionawake somebody ↔ to something phrasal verb literary to make someone understand a situation and its possible effects: Artists finally awoke to the possibilities of photography.