wake• It was impossible to wake anyone in the house.• Then Mrs Dempster woke him as usual with a cup of tea, and he felt better.• But do not try to wake him into a higher level.• The windows of the house glowed suddenly bright, like the eyes of some monsterwaking in the dark.• Try not to wake the baby if you go in the bedroom.• Dad said he woke up at five this morning.• Fourteenth-century Wandsworth was waking up, deciding it could have another ten minutes, and turning over in its warmstraw.• And he woke up with more than just his stomach growling.
1in the wake of somethingAFTERif something, especially something bad, happens in the wake of an event, it happens afterwards and usually as a result of it 〔尤指不好的事〕紧随某事而来;作为某事的后果
2in somebody’s/something’s wakeAFTERbehind or after someone or something 紧跟某人/某物后面
The car left clouds of dust in its wake.
汽车驶过,扬起团团尘土。
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in somebody’s/something’s wake• They also might enable companies to resume the building projects they abandonedin the wake of the December 1994 peso devaluation.• I call Stan from the airportin San Francisco and wake him up with the bad news.• Here, then, are questions that parents have raised with Child Caring in the wake of the Angeli story.• The morning was cold, in the wake of the northwind that had frozen the fields since mid-March.• The park was formed to preserve for ever the spectacularcountryside, lakes and river systems createdin the wake of the glacier.• Love is not the impureself-seeking that chokes everything in its wake.• The tornado left hundreds of damaged homes in its wake.• The people in the house were waking up.• To some extent the advances made in our primary schools in the wake of the Plowden Report have been squandered.
1 ( wake up) stop being asleep睡醒ADVERB | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADVERB➤early, late醒得早;醒得晚◇She had woken even earlier than usual.她比平時醒得還早。➤suddenly突然醒來➤finally終於醒來PREPOSITION➤from從⋯中醒來◇She had just woken up from a deep sleep.她剛從沉睡中醒來。➤to聽到⋯醒來◇He woke to the sound of the sirens.他被警笛聲吵醒了。➤with因⋯醒來◇I woke with a jolt.我猛然驚醒。PHRASES➤wake to find sth, wake up to find sth醒來發現⋯◇Any minute now she'd wake up to find herself at home safe in bed.她會隨時醒來,發現自己躺在家中的牀上,平安無事。➤wake up with a start, wake with a start驚醒◇She woke with a start from a terrible nightmare.她從可怕的噩夢中驚醒。wake
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2 ( wake up) make sb stop sleeping喚醒ADVERB | VERB + WAKEADVERB➤gently輕輕地喚醒◇I woke him gently.我輕輕地叫醒他。VERB + WAKE➤be careful not to, not want to, try not to注意不要/不想/試圖不要弄醒◇Be careful not to wake the children!注意別吵醒孩子們!