| 单词 | wake |
| 释义 | wake I. intransitive verb 1. a. < usually asleep, and in our waking hours always held back — Sir Winston Churchill > b. obsolete c. d. obsolete < the king doth wake tonight, and takes his rouse — Shakespeare > 2. a. < soon woke refreshed — Eudora Welty > < ruffled his hair as if he had just woken — Audrey Barker > — often used with up < I waked up at 3 o'clock in the morning — Joyce Cary > < the boy had waked from dreams — Ralph Robin > b. < woke out of his trance — O.S.J.Gogarty > < the old feelings had woken — Rumer Godden > — often used with up < on national holidays … the little place wakes up — Tom Marvel > c. < has woken up and … rescinded its previous resolution — Cape Town (South Africa) Monitor > — usually used with to < social scientists have waked to the story's importance — Roger Burlingame > < woke up to the fact that this was a delusion — Atlantic > transitive verb 1. < will be waked at the church rectory — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > < waked the departed term most gloriously over eggs, pie, and cider — W.G.Hammond > 2. a. < was woken by raucous bird cries — A.H.Barton > — often used with up < a young physicist woke up his wife — Laura Fermi > < is partly waked up … by the crying of one of his children — Edmund Wilson > < snakes are woken up by heat — T.H.White b. 1906 > b. < an offense against himself which woke his terrible wrath — H.E.Scudder > < his tears woken and then held back — H.E.Bates > < woke up latent possibilities — Norman Douglas > c. < what wakes him up is the horrified refusal of his future wife to be kissed — Anthony Quinton > — usually used with to < woke the publishers to the fact that there was an enormous … audience — Harrison Smith > d. (1) archaic < no wind waked the wood — C.K.D.Patmore > (2) < his great laugh woke distant echoes in the forest — Irving Bacheller > II. 1. < making such difference twixt wake and sleep — Shakespeare > 2. a. (1) (2) b. < fairs, markets, folk dancing and all kinds of amusements characterize Wakes Week celebration — Dorothy G. Spicer > c. Britain < the wakes … had closed the workshops — Manchester Examiner > 3. a. < when the boys gather to hold a wake … they'll have to bring their own drinking — F.B.Gipson > < mourn their dead with the primitive wails of a Corsican wake — Marguerite Yourcenar > b. < the bridal wake that the villagers gave — Christian Science Monitor > < a few old friends … hold a brief wake over old days — J.R.Allan > III. < whose struggle is to keep the world of wake men from their sleep world — E.J.Fitzgerald > IV. 1. < the wake of a ship showing green and white — Stewart Beach > < beaver wakes glistening under the moonlight — R.M.Ormes > broadly < the wake of an airplane wing > 2. < staring out over the water at the figure receding beyond the moon's wake — R.O.Bowen > 3. < a big red truck passes … and a billowing wake of dust floats toward the house — Helen Upshaw > • - in the wake of |
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