awake

英 [ə'weɪk] 美[ə'wek]

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第三人称单数: awakes;过去式: awoke;过去分词: awoken;现在分词: awaking;

awake: awake: [OE] Awake was formed by adding the intensive prefix ā- to the verb wake (in Old English wacan or wacian, related to watch, and also ultimately to vegetable, vigil, and vigour). The adjective awake arose in the 13th century; it was originally a variant form of the past participle of the verb.
=> vigil, wake, watch
awake (v.): a merger of two Middle English verbs: 1. awaken, from Old English awæcnan (earlier onwæcnan; strong, past tense awoc, past participle awacen) "to awake, arise, originate," from a "on" + wacan "to arise, become awake" (see wake (v.)); and 2. awakien, from Old English awacian (weak, past participle awacode) "to awaken, revive; arise; originate, spring from," from a "on" (see a (2)) + wacian "to be awake, remain awake, watch" (see watch (v.)).

Both originally were intransitive only; the transitive sense being expressed by Middle English awecchen (from Old English aweccan) until later Middle English. In Modern English, the tendency has been to restrict the strong past tense and past participle (awoke, awoken) to the original intransitive sense and the weak inflection (awakened) to the transitive, but this never has been complete (see wake (v.); also compare awaken).
awake (adj.): "not asleep," c. 1300, shortened from awaken, past participle of Old English awæcnan (see awaken).

1. The hypnotic state actually lies somewhere between being awake and being asleep.: 催眠状态实际上介乎清醒和睡眠之间。

5. My own eyes had felt heavy-lidded, but now I was wide awake.: 我自己刚才也觉得眼睛都快睁不开了，不过现在我清醒得很。