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wake·ful /ˈweɪkfəl/ adjective literary a) WAKE UP/GET UPnot sleeping or unable to sleep 醒着的;不能入睡的 She lay wakeful in her room for most of the night. 她躺在自己的房间里,一晚上大部分时间都不能入眠。 b) WAKE UP/GET UPa wakeful period of time is one when you cannot sleep 〔时间〕不眠的 —wakefulness noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpuswakeful• He was much more restless than last night, and, despite sleeping drugs, much more wakeful.• She had been up most of the night with a wakeful baby.• His breathing was the forced, wakeful kind.• The unhappiness Roman's suggestion had brought, combined with wakeful nights, had made her sleep too heavily.wake·ful adjectiveChineseSyllable Corpus sleep sleeping to or unable not |