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vigil

音標['vid?il] 讀音

漢語翻譯


n. 警戒, 監視, 守夜
【醫】 不眠, 警醒

英文解釋:

名詞 vigil:

  1. a period of sleeplessness
  2. the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
    同義詞:watch
  3. a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
    同義詞:watch

例句:

  1. The detectives resumed their vigil at the house.
    偵探們又開始在那楝房子警戒了。
  2. One who keeps vigil, as at a sick person's bedside.
    護理者如在病人身旁等看護的人
  3. She kept an all-night vigil by the patient's bedside.
    她整夜守在病人旁邊。

詳細解釋:


vig.il

n.(名詞)

A watch kept during normal sleeping hours.
守夜,值夜:在正常睡眠時間里的監視
The act or a period of observing; surveillance.
觀察;警戒:觀察或監視的行為或時間
The eve of a religious festival as observed by devotional watching.
守夜:宗教節日的前夕,通過虔誠的守夜慶祝
Often vigils Ritual devotions observed on the eve of a holy day.
常作 vigils 在宗教節日前的祈禱

來源:
Middle English vigile [a devotional watching]
中古英文 vigile [虔誠的守夜]
from Old French
源自 古法文
from Latin vigilia [wakefulness, watch]
源自 拉丁語 vigilia [不眠,監視]
from vigil [awake] * see weg-
源自 vigil [醒過來] *參見 weg-

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