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。
Examples from the Corpus
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.