Wakefulness

(noun.) a periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world; 'consciousness during wakefulness in a sane person is pretty well ordered and familiar'.

(noun.) a temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep; 'accept your wakefulness and sleep in its own contrary way is more likely to come'.

阿伦编辑

• Her aunt Bertram had recollected her on this occasion with an unusual degree of wakefulness. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• And she was so hard awake, it was almost frightening--a hard, metallic wakefulness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I knew that I was on Mars; not once did I question either my sanity or my wakefulness. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• He drove on in a strange new wakefulness, the tension of his consciousness broken. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She had been awake when he first entered her room, but had kept her eyes closed, so that even her wakefulness should not seem to reproach him. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• For me, the watches of that long night passed in ghastly wakefulness; strained by dread: such dread as children only can feel. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He would keep his councillors up to unearthly hours, and betray a simple pride in his superior wakefulness. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He tried to steal in, but was baffled by your wakefulness. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.

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