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to stop sleeping; to make somebody stop sleeping 醒；醒来；唤醒；弄醒 I always wake early in the summer. 我夏天总是醒得早。 🔊🔊 Tom woke with a start and lifted his head. 汤姆起身醒来，抬起头。 - wake up
What time do you usually wake up in the morning? 通常你早晨几点钟醒？ 🔊🔊 I woke up an hour earlier than I wanted to. 我比想早一个小时醒了。 - wake to something (formal)
They woke to a clear blue sky. 他们醒来时天空碧蓝。 🔊🔊 I woke to the sound of heavy rain outside. 我惊醒了外面大雨的声音。 - wake from something (formal)
She had just woken from a deep sleep. 她刚从熟睡中醒来。 🔊🔊 - wake up to do something
He woke up to find himself alone in the house. 他醒来时发现屋里只有他一个人。 🔊🔊 - wake to do something
The woman woke to see the defendant in her bedroom. 该名女子醒来后在卧室见到被告。 - wake somebody
I was woken by the sound of someone moving around. 有人来回走动的响声把我吵醒了。 🔊🔊 - wake somebody up
Try not to wake the baby up. 尽量别把孩子弄醒。 🔊🔊
Which Word? awake / awaken / wake up / wakenawake / awaken / wake up / waken- Wake (up) is the most common of these verbs. It can mean somebody has finished sleeping:
上述动词中 wake (up) 最常用，可表示睡醒 ：What time do you usually wake up? or that somebody or something has disturbed your sleep: The children woke me up.I was woken (up) by the telephone. 您通常几点起床？或某人或某物扰乱了您的睡眠：孩子们把我吵醒了。我被电话吵醒了。 - The verb awake is usually only used in writing and in the past tense awoke:
动词 awake 通常只用于书面语，而且用过去时 awoke ：She awoke to a day of brilliant sunshine. Waken and awaken are much more formal. Awaken is used especially in literature: The Prince awakened Sleeping Beauty with a kiss. 她醒来了灿烂的阳光。唤醒和唤醒更为正式。唤醒特别用于文学中：王子通过亲吻唤醒了《睡美人》。 - Awake is also an adjective:
awake 亦作形容词 ：I was awake half the night worrying.Is the baby awake yet? Waking is not used in this way.
Extra Examples- Any minute now she'd wake up to find herself at home safe in bed.
我半夜醒着，着急。婴儿醒了吗？不以这种方式使用醒来。另请参见熟睡，睡眠更多示例现在每分钟她都会醒来，发现自己可以安全地躺在床上。 Be careful not to wake the children! 注意别吵醒孩子们！ She had just woken up from a deep sleep. 她刚从沉睡中醒来。 She had woken even earlier than usual. 她比平时醒得还早。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- gently
- be careful not to
- not want to
- try not to
- …
- [transitive] wake something (literary or formal)
to make somebody remember something or feel something again 唤起（记忆）；使再次感觉到
Word Originverb Old English (recorded only in the past tense wōc), also partly from the weak verb wacian ‘remain awake, hold a vigil’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch waken and German wachen; compare with watch.
Idioms
wake up and smell the coffee
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used to tell somebody to become aware of what is really happening in a situation, especially when this is something unpleasant 要清醒面对现实
