wakefulness

英

美

n.  觉醒；不眠

医学

BNC.26657 / COCA.24049

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 难以入睡的;失眠的;睡眠轻的
  Someone who iswakefulfinds it difficult to get to sleep and wakes up very often when they should be sleeping.
  1. Wakeful babies will often continue to need little sleep as they grow older.
     通常睡眠轻的婴儿长大后仍然只需要较少的睡眠。

英英释义

noun

• a periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world
  1. consciousness during wakefulness in a sane person is pretty well ordered and familiar
• the process of paying close and continuous attention
  1. wakefulness, watchfulness, and bellicosity make a good hunter
  2. vigilance is especially susceptible to fatigue
  Synonym:watchfulnessvigilancealertness
• a temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep
  1. accept your wakefulness and sleep in its own contrary way is more likely to come
  Synonym:sleeplessness

双语例句

• Through burned out eyes, tormented mind moribund in that fuzzy area between sleep and wakefulness, he watched the pulsating digits of the clock ticking over.
  透过烧毁的眼睛，折磨奄奄一息的心在这模糊区之间的睡眠和清醒，他观看了脉动数字时钟滴答。
• Effects of intracerebroventricular injection of thyrotropin-releasing hormone on wakefulness and sleep in rats
  侧脑室注射促甲状腺激素释放激素对大鼠睡眠-觉醒的影响
• You have to force your sleep addled brain into wakefulness, move your stiff legs and retrieve the key before the alarm goes off.
  你必须强迫你的睡眠混乱的大脑进入觉醒，移动你的僵硬的腿和检索密钥之前报警熄灭。
• In your aloneness you have watched with our days, and in your wakefulness you have listened to the weeping and the laughter of our sleep.
  当您寂寞的时候您看着我们每日生活，当您无眠的时候您倾听我们睡梦中的哭泣和欢笑。
• A neurotransmitter associated with voluntary movement, sleep and wakefulness.
  一种神经递质与自主运动、睡眠有关。
• The energy increase may then power restorative processes absent during wakefulness, because brain cells consume large amounts of energy just performing daily waking functions.
  那么能量的增加可能为清醒时所缺乏的恢复过程提供了动力。因为大脑细胞仅在执行各种日常觉醒功能时就要消耗大量的能量。
• The team was looking for a natural clock in the body that controls sleep and wakefulness.
  团队在身体里寻找自然的钟，可以控制睡眠和不眠症。
• Most conclude that the purpose of sleep is rest and recovery from the wear and tear of wakefulness.
  人们大都认为睡眠是为了从非睡眠状态下的疲倦和劳累中得到休息和恢复。
• Stimulant: any drug that excites any bodily function; usually one that stimulates the central nervous system, inducing alertness, elevated mood, wakefulness, increased speech and motor activity, and decreased appetite.
  兴奋剂：能兴奋机体功能的药物。通常指刺激中枢神经系统的兴奋剂，用于警醒，改善心情，提神消倦，增加言语和运动能力，以及控制食欲。
• This is the sort of mixed-up mental state I am familiar with from bouts of wakefulness at three in the morning.
  这是我所熟悉的一种头脑不清的精神状态，在凌晨三点失眠时多次出现。