awake是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 醒着的vt. 唤醒， 使觉醒vi. 醒来， 醒悟到，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had been awake the whole of the preceding night, my nerves were agitated, and my eyes inflamed by watching and misery.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he lay awake at night thinking of all the charming gallantries he might haveemployed; but he rarely got a second chance, for the girls left him alone after a trial or two.
-- Melanie and Pittypat had gone to sleep hours before, but Scarlett lay awake in the warm darkness, her heart heavyand frightened in her breast.
-- "I've been awake since sun-up thinking, and, Scarlett,there's something I want to ask you."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the aid of these appliances we all had something warm to drink, including the Aged, who was soon awake again.
-- When I had lain awake a little while, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems began to make themselves audible.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The children, however, were still awake and had heard the conversation.
-- They did not awake until it was dark night, and Hansel comfort-ed his little sister and said: 'Just wait, Gretel, until the moon rises, and then we shall see the crumbs of bread which I have strewn about, they will show us our way home again.'
-- He still, however, slept on, and did not awake till he found himself in the mouth of the cow; for the cook had put the hay into the cow's rick, and the cow had taken Tom up in a mouthful of it.
-- Now the queen lay awake all night, thinking of all the odd names that she had ever heard; and she sent messen-gers all over the land to find out new ones.
-- I shall drive there in my carriage at two o'clock in the afternoon for three successive days; the first day it will be drawn by 275four white, the second by four chestnut, and the last by four black horses; but if you fail to keep awake and I find you sleeping, I shall not be set free.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He desired me to give him some account of my travels; and, to let me see that I should be treated without ceremony, he dismissed all his attendants with a turn of his finger; at which, to my great astonishment, they vanished in an instant, like visions in a dream when we awake on a sudden.
-- I pinched my arms and sides to awake myself, hoping I might be in a dream.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although it was hard to believe that her retiring for the night could be anything but a form, so severely wide awake were those classical eyes of hers, and so impossible did it seem that her rigid nose could yield to any relaxing influence, yet her manner of sitting, smoothing her uncomfortable, not to say, gritty mittens (they were constructed of a cool fabric like a meat-safe), or of ambling to unknown places of destination with her foot in her cotton stirrup, was so perfectly serene, that most observers would have been constrained to suppose her a dove, embodied by some freak of nature, in the earthly tabernacle of a bird of the hook-beaked order.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For passion alone is awake to it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We will make her find pockets presently for all there is here,' said Clennam: 'but before we awake her, there was a third thing to say.'
-- He seemed to be dozing when she returned, and she put the low fire together very softly lest she should awake him.
-- The lady had fallen into a slumber, and the whisper was too low to awake her.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I tried it, but felt wider awake than ever.'
-- The good soul was wide awake in a minute, and took the lead at once, assuring that there was no need to worry; every one had scarlet fever, and if rightly treated, nobody died, all of which Jo believed, and felt much relieved as they went up to call Meg.
-- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVEThe June roses over the porch were awake bright and ear-ly on that morning, rejoicing with all their hearts in the cloudless sunshine, like friendly little neighbors, as they were.
-- Jo lay long awake that night, and was just dropping off when the sound of a stifled sob made her fly to Beth's bed-side, with the anxious inquiry, 'What is it, dear?'
-- Mr. Dashwood was much wider awake than before, which was agreeable and Mr. Dashwood was not too deeply absorbed in a cigar to remember his manners, so the second interview was much more comfortable than the first.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Think of it; sleeping all night in the same room with a wide awake pagan on his hams in this dreary, unaccountable Ramadan!
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