vigil

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n. 警戒, 监视, 守夜 [医] 不眠, 警醒

发音

其它 /ˈvɪd͡ʒəl/

词形变化

vigils 复数 vigils vigils 三单 vigiling 现在分词 vigilling 现在分词 vigiled 过去式 vigiled 过去分词 vigilled 过去式 vigilled 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

守夜；监视；不眠；警戒

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.

    值夜

  2. 2.

    A period of observation or surveillance at any hour.

    警戒

    His dog kept vigil outside the hospital for eight days while he was recovering from an accident.

  3. 3.

    The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.

    守夜祈祷

  4. 4.

    A quiet demonstration in support of a cause.

    The protesters kept vigil outside the conference centre in which the party congress was being held.

v.
  1. 1.

    To participate in a vigil.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

watch

上位词 3

surveillance rite wakefulness

下位词 6

wake spying viewing overwatch agrypnia listening watch

相关短语

coma vigil [医] 睁眼昏迷, 醒状昏迷 candlelight vigil keep vigil keeps vigil keeping vigil kept vigil

词源

From Middle English vigile (“a devotional watching”), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong, lively, awake”). Doublet of Wigilia. See also wake and vigor, from the same root.

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