vigil

单词音标

vigil音标[\'vidʒil]

汉语翻译

n. 警戒, 监视, 守夜

【医】 不眠, 警醒

英语解释

名词 vigil:

a period of sleeplessness

the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)

同义词：watch

a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe

同义词：watch

例句

The detectives resumed their vigil at the house.

侦探们又开始在那楝房子警戒了。

One who keeps vigil, as at a sick person\'s bedside.

护理者如在病人身旁等看护的人

She kept an all-night vigil by the patient\'s bedside.

她整夜守在病人旁边。

详细解释

vig.il

n.（名词）

A watch kept during normal sleeping hours.

守夜，值夜：在正常睡眠时间里的监视

The act or a period of observing; surveillance.

观察；警戒：观察或监视的行为或时间

The eve of a religious festival as observed by devotional watching.

守夜：宗教节日的前夕，通过虔诚的守夜庆祝

Often vigils Ritual devotions observed on the eve of a holy day.

常作 vigils 在宗教节日前的祈祷

来源：

Middle English vigile [a devotional watching]

中古英语 vigile [虔诚的守夜]

from Old French

源自 古法语

from Latin vigilia [wakefulness, watch]

源自 拉丁语 vigilia [不眠，监视]

from vigil [awake] * see weg-

源自 vigil [醒过来] *参见 weg-