wake
verbVerb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they wake | |
| he / she / it wakes | |
| past simple woke | |
| past participle woken | |
| -ing form waking |
- [intransitive, transitive]
to stop sleeping; to make somebody stop sleeping 醒；醒来；唤醒；弄醒 I always wake early in the summer. 我夏天总是醒得早。 Tom woke with a start and lifted his head. 汤姆被惊醒，抬起头。 - wake up
What time do you usually wake up in the morning? 通常你早晨几点钟醒？ I woke up an hour earlier than I wanted to. 我比我想的早一个小时醒来。 - wake to something (formal)
They woke to a clear blue sky. 他们醒来时天空碧蓝。 I woke to the sound of heavy rain outside. 我被外面大雨的声音吵醒了。 - wake from something (formal)
She had just woken from a deep sleep. 她刚从熟睡中醒来。 - wake up to do something
He woke up to find himself alone in the house. 他醒来时发现屋里只有他一个人。 - wake to do something
The woman woke to see the defendant in her bedroom. 该女子醒来时发现被告在她的卧室里。 - wake somebody
I was woken by the sound of someone moving around. 有人来回走动的响声把我吵醒了。 - wake somebody up
Try not to wake the baby up. 尽量别把孩子弄醒。
Which Word? awake / awaken / wake up / wakenawake / awaken / wake up / waken- Wake (up) is the most common of these verbs. It can mean somebody has finished sleeping:
上述动词中 wake (up) 最常用，可表示睡醒： What time do you usually wake up? 你通常什么时候醒来？
亦指弄醒、唤醒： 孩子们把我吵醒了。 我被电话吵醒了。 - The verb awake is usually only used in writing and in the past tense awoke:
动词 awake 通常只用于书面语，而且用过去时 awoke： She awoke to a day of brilliant sunshine. 她醒来时是阳光灿烂的一天。 王子用一个吻唤醒了睡美人。 - Awake is also an adjective:
see also asleep, sleepawake 亦作形容词： I was awake half the night worrying. 我忧心忡忡，半宿不能成眠。 宝宝醒来了吗？ Extra Examples- Any minute now she'd wake up to find herself at home safe in bed.
现在，她随时都会醒来，发现自己在家里，安全地躺在床上。 Be careful not to wake the children! 注意别吵醒孩子们！ She had just woken up from a deep sleep. 她刚从沉睡中醒来。 She had woken even earlier than usual. 她比平时醒得还早。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- gently
- be careful not to
- not want to
- try not to
- …
- [transitive] wake something (literary or formal)
to make somebody remember something or feel something again 唤起（记忆）；使再次感觉到
Word Originverb Old English (recorded only in the past tense wōc), also partly from the weak verb wacian ‘remain awake, hold a vigil’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch waken and German wachen; compare with watch.
Idioms
wake up and smell the coffee
- (informal)
used to tell somebody to become aware of what is really happening in a situation, especially when this is something unpleasant 要清醒面对现实
