vigilance

Word family

vig·i·lance /ˈvɪdʒələns/ noun [uncountableU]

ATTENTIONcareful attention that you give to what is happening, so that you will notice any danger or illegal activity 警惕，警戒

the need for increased police vigilance

警方加强警戒的必要性

Examples from the Corpus

vigilance• The increasing use of child-proof containers for medicines is helpful, but vigilance is still necessary.• Constant vigilance to match appropriate services to needs, assessed along tight guidelines, is one way to avoid temptation.• But continued vigilance, from me and from everyone, is necessary if there is to be change.• Making the right choices, like protecting freedom, demands eternal vigilance.• Here is another example of the need for vigilance when assessing usually well-intentioned accounts of distress.• I forced myself to open my fingers, to relax my vigilance, to fall asleep.• Females often try to escape from the alpha male's vigilance, and will go up to the beta male and solicit copulation.• And in this situation, such vigilance was called for.

Chinese

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Corpus

TOEFL BNC: 13835 COCA: 13494

vigilance

noun

ADJECTIVE | VERB + VIGILANCE | PREPOSITION | PHRASES

ADJECTIVE

➤constant, continued, eternal時刻警惕；始終警覺

▸➤extra, heightened, increased格外的警覺；加強的警戒；增強的戒備

◇You should exercise extra vigilance about locking your car.你應該特別留心把車鎖好。

VERB + VIGILANCE

➤exercise, increase, maintain實行警戒；增強警戒；保持警惕

▸➤relax放鬆警惕

◇The birds cannot afford to relax their vigilance against predators.鳥兒不敢放鬆對天敵的警戒。

➤require需要警惕

PREPOSITION

➤vigilance against對⋯的警惕

◇vigilance against shoplifters對商店扒手的警惕

➤vigilance on the part of sb某人的警惕

◇Guaranteeing the safety of students requires continued vigilance on the part of teachers.要確保學生安全，教師需時刻保持警惕。

PHRASES

➤a need for vigilance需要警惕

TOEFL BNC: 13835 COCA: 13494

vigilance