awakeの意味・使い方・発音

awake

英 [ə'weɪk] 美 [ə'wek]

awake: awake: [OE] Awake was formed by adding the intensive prefix ā- to the verb wake (in Old English wacan or wacian, related to watch, and also ultimately to vegetable, vigil, and vigour). The adjective awake arose in the 13th century; it was originally a variant form of the past participle of the verb.
=> vigil, wake, watch
awake (v.): a merger of two Middle English verbs: 1. awaken, from Old English aw?cnan (earlier onw?cnan; strong, past tense awoc, past participle awacen) "to awake, arise, originate," from a "on" + wacan "to arise, become awake" (see wake (v.)); and 2. awakien, from Old English awacian (weak, past participle awacode) "to awaken, revive; arise; originate, spring from," from a "on" (see a (2)) + wacian "to be awake, remain awake, watch" (see watch (v.)).

Both originally were intransitive only; the transitive sense being expressed by Middle English awecchen (from Old English aweccan) until later Middle English. In Modern English, the tendency has been to restrict the strong past tense and past participle (awoke, awoken) to the original intransitive sense and the weak inflection (awakened) to the transitive, but this never has been complete (see wake (v.); also compare awaken).
awake (adj.): "not asleep," c. 1300, shortened from awaken, past participle of Old English aw?cnan (see awaken).

1. The hypnotic state actually lies somewhere between being awake and being asleep.: 催眠状態は、実際には覚醒と睡眠の間を介している。

2.He was awake at 3 am,mooching about in the darkness.: 彼は午前3時に目を覚まし、暗闇の中を模索した。

4.He came fully awake to hear the bath running.: 彼は完全に目を覚まし、浴槽の水が流れているのが聞こえた。

5.My own eyes had felt heavy-lidded,but now I was wide awake .: 私自身もさっきは目が開けられなくなったと思っていましたが、今は目が覚めています。