awaken
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To cause to become awake.
— Be careful how you touch her, she'll awaken / As sleep's the only freedom all that she knows / And when you walk into her eyes, you won't believe / The way she's always paying for a debt she never owes
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To stop sleeping; awake.
— Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.
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To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.
— Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!
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Of something previously dormant, to become active.
— I'll miss the sea. But a person needs new experiences. They draw something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change, something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
- To call to a sense of sin.
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past participle of awake
— [This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and ran away...
- To cause to become aware.
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To become aware.
— I suddenly awoke to the possibilities of the new invention.
词汇关系
词源
From Middle English awakenen or awaknen, from Old English awæcnan or awæcnian, from a- plus wæcnan or wæcnian.
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