"to become awake, cease to sleep," Old English w?cnan, w?cnian "to rise, awake; spring from, come into being," from the same source as wake (v.). OED regards the ending as the -n- "suffix of inchoative verbs of state," but Barnhart rejects this and says it is simply -en (1). Figurative sense was in Old English. Transitive sense of "to rouse (someone or something) from sleep" is recorded from c. 1200. Related: Wakened; wakening.
雙語例句
1. If you do waken up during the night, start the exercises again.
如果你夜里真的醒了，就再從頭開始做這套動作。
來自柯林斯例句
2. "Drink this coffee — it will waken you up."
“把這杯咖啡喝了——它會讓你清醒過來。”
來自柯林斯例句
3. Naomi would waken to the twitter of birds.
娜奧米會被鳥兒吱吱喳喳的叫聲喚醒。
來自柯林斯例句
4. We must waken the people to the dangers facing our country.
我們必須使人們認識到我們國家面臨的危險.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. It is frightening to most children to waken and find a stranger.