| 释义 |
wake; wake up
verb
to become aware of something AUSTRALIA, 1910- We woke up to the reason why the bloke on the truck gave us kids only a penny each for empty soft-drink bottles. — William Dick, A Bunch on Ratbags, p. 55, 1965
- Diddler used to go crook that he could never win a hand from me, but Diddler always had a durry hanging on his lip and I woke. If the durry was hanging on his chin, he had no more than a good pair and was going for a ride. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 77, 1979
- But Ray soon woke to this trick. — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 26, 1988
▶ wake your ideas up
to concentrate; to use your wits UK, 1961
Often as an imperative.▶ wouldn’t wake if...
to be generally unaware of what’s what AUSTRALIA- But he wouldn’t wake up if the roof fell on him. — Robert S. Close, With Hooves of Brass, p. 102, 1961
- They wouldn’t wake up if a Foolgarah dunny fell on them. — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 129, 1971
- — Frank Hardy, Hardy’s People, p. 35, 1986
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