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单词 awaken
释义
awaken
verb[IorT]
literary
uk
/əˈweɪ.kən/us
/əˈweɪ.kən/
tostopsleepingor to make someonestopsleeping:
（使）醒来；唤醒
They were awakened by thesoundofgunfire.他们被炮声惊醒。
I awakened atdawntofindhim beside me.我在黎明醒来，发现他在我身边。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Animal physiology: not sleeping & not unconscious
  • anti-sleep
  • astir
  • be in the land of the livingidiom
  • come round
  • consciousness
  • get up
  • insomniac
  • keepsomeoneup
  • knock
  • knock up
  • land
  • sit(someone)up
  • stir
  • toss
  • wait up
  • wakeful
  • waken
  • wakey-wakey
  • waking
  • woke
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Phrasal verbs

awaken (something) insomeone
awakensomeonetosomething
(Definition ofawakenfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

awaken| American Dictionary

awaken
verb[I/T]
us
/əˈweɪ·kən/
tostopsleeping, or tocausesomeone tostopsleeping:
[T]Thefamilywas awakened by anoise.
fig.Ifinterestis awakened, it is made moreactive:
[T]Histelevisionseriesawakenedpopularinterestin Americanarchitecture.
(Definition ofawakenfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofawaken

awaken
The relatively low average is partially due to the fact that subjects were carrying out short experiments and wanted toawakenwith full recall.
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However, the subjects did find the solutions to the problems with relative ease during the first hour after awakening in the morning.
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We are being rudely awakened to a sense of unity in matters political, economic, scientific, and even cultural.
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Youawakenone morning on your amply outfitted but very small boat to find that a shipwrecked sailor has climbed aboard.
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Upon awakening, the interpretive process accelerates as the dormant verbal and meaning modules of the left temporal and prefrontal cortices become active.
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Sometimes awakening is facilitated by a frightening or bizarre dream, which then is vividly remembered.
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The workers were denied it because it contained within it possibilities for awakening the masses.
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He announced that his utopian dream was real and that society was a nightmare from which all mustawaken.
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Yes, it mayawakena longing in us for a time when there was certainty.
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Understanding the awakening spirit of a professional teaching force.
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In performance, she finds that her senses are awakened and open to a heightened level of sensitivity.
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But such spatial homogenisation had awakened various tensions among the residents in the 1990s.
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Assume that awakening takes place from deep sleep; it takes time before recall can be made.
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Another problem can be that distractions at awakening impair dream recall.
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Now, awakened, they perceived the bitterness and anger of the people, and regarded it as their duty to express them.
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