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单词 aware
释义 aware
\əˈwa(a)(ə)r, -we(ə)r, -wa(a)ə, -weə\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English iwar, from Old English gewær, from ge- (collective prefix) + wær wary — more at co-, wary
1. archaic : on guard : watchful, vigilant
 < are you all aware of … talebearing and evil-speaking — John Wesley >
2.
 a. : marked by realization, perception, or knowledge : conscious, sensible, cognizant
  < he was never fully aware of the extent of his failures — O.S.Nock >
  < Adams was aware that the arrival of the tea ships might be used to precipitate a crisis — C.L.Becker >
 b. : showing heightened perception and ready comprehension and appreciation : informed, knowing, alert
  < the most intellectually ambitious and the most technically aware of the novelists under thirty — W.S.Graham >
Synonyms:
 cognizant, conscious, sensible, alive, awake: aware may indicate either general information, wide knowledge, interpretative power, or vigilant perception
  < few, so far as I am aware, now claim the free speech to call a knave a knave — T.S.Eliot >
  < more widely aware of the phenomena of biological chemistry — Sinclair Lewis >
  < Americans are becoming aware that American destiny can be pursued only in a world framework — Max Lerner >
  cognizant may imply the gradual impingement of knowledge or perception on one's consciousness or may connote special efforts to know
  < Soapy's mind became cognizant of the fact — O.Henry >
  < through the servants, or from some other means, he had made himself cognizant of the projected elopement — Anthony Trollope >
  It may imply arch knowingness
  < “ah!” went the other eyeing Ripton in lordly cognizant style — George Meredith >
  conscious may indicate impingement on one's mind so that one recognizes the fact or existence of something
  < dimly conscious that Hallward was speaking to him but not catching the meaning of the words — Oscar Wilde >
  It may also indicate an extreme and dominating realization, even a preoccupation
  < what makes a writer most acutely conscious of his place in time — T.S.Eliot >
  sensible may apply to situations in which a thing is intuitively sensed and also to those in which it is rationally perceived, known, and admitted
  < for my part, though deeply sensible of its influence, I cannot seize it — Nathaniel Hawthorne >
  < I am sensible that I write you short letters but I write you all I know — Horace Walpole >
  It is often used to indicate awareness and acknowledgment of gratitude, pleasure, resentment, or pain
  < I am sensible I may be indebted to you, sir — Charles Dickens >
  alive may suggest vivid awareness, certain keen perception
  < Cromwell … was keenly alive to all that concerned England's honor and strength — A.T.Mahan >
  < these two had a certain cool judgment, and they were fully alive to the danger of thwarting Barbara — John Galsworthy >
  awake may suggest alert perception
  < a large number of her [Britain's] leaders seem awake to the saving qualities of compromise — Leland Stowe >
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