vigil英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.

— I saw her head drooped upon her hand; her whole attitude expressing that profound depression, whose lonely vigil wastes the midnight in a gloomy watch, which yet hopes for nothing at its close.
A period of observation or surveillance at any hour.

— His dog kept vigil outside the hospital for eight days while he was recovering from an accident.
The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.
A quiet demonstration in support of a cause.

— The protesters kept vigil outside the conference centre in which the party congress was being held.

动词 v.

To participate in a vigil.

— As the arrested painters and their supporters waited out their "day in court," other activists distributed Hiroshima information leaflets, vigiled silently with placards and banners, and marched 500-strong through downtown Boston to a rally at City Hall Plaza.

词形变化

vigils plural vigils present,singular,third-person vigiling US,participle,present vigilling UK,participle,present vigiled US,participle,past vigiled US,past vigilled UK,participle,past vigilled UK,past

词汇关系

衍生词

candlelight vigil coma vigil keep vigil

词源

词源 1

From Middle English vigile (“a devotional watching”), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong, lively, awake”). Doublet of Wigilia. See also wake and vigor, from the same root.

词源 2

From Middle English vigile (“a devotional watching”), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong, lively, awake”). Doublet of Wigilia. See also wake and vigor, from the same root.