| 词汇 | vigil |
| 释义 | vigil noun[ C or U ] uk /ˈvɪdʒ.əl/ us /ˈvɪdʒ.əl/ an act of staying awake, especially at night, in order to be with a person who is very ill or dying, or to make a protest, or to pray: （陪伴病人、祈祷、表达不同政见等的）不眠时间;（尤指）值夜，守夜 His parents kept vigil beside his bed for weeks before he died.他去世之前，父母在他床边守夜守了好几个星期。 Supporters of the peace movement held an all-night candlelit vigil outside the cathedral.和平运动的支持者们在大教堂外举行了一次持续一整夜的烛光守夜祈祷活动。 Animal physiology: not sleeping & not unconscious anti-sleep come round fully conscious get up insomnia keep someone up knock land night owl rise sit (someone) up sleepless toss wait wait up wake up!idiom wakefully wakefulness wakey-wakey woke vigil | American Dictionaryvigil noun[ C ] us/ˈvɪdʒ·əl/ a period of staying awake to be with someone who is ill or to call public attention to something: The boy’s parents kept a long vigil in his hospital room. A candlelight vigil on the steps of the courthouse was held to protest the verdict in this trial. Examples of vigilvigil The populace that had gathered for the feast customarily kept a vigil with praises throughout the entire night. She arrived, and we alternated the vigil for the rest of the morning. In the hands of these clerics, then, the papal vigil achieved its most striking transformation from private ritual to public spectacle. The chapter then chanted a vigil of one nocturn, after which each member received supper and distributions of currency from their hosts. Vigil provides distributed trust, access control and authentication services in the pervasive computing environment. During the vigil, the night comes on. Patients were more likely to experience decreased levels of agitation and wakefulness while also breathing more slowly and deeply with less effort at the conclusion of the music vigil. During prescriptive "music vigils," the clinician-musician carefully observes physiological changes, cues, and breathing patterns, thereby synchronizing the music to ref lect or support the patient's physiology and overall condition. Although these were universally venerated saints, the chapter cast seven of the apostles as local patrons by celebrating their vigils at churches with an altar dedicated to them. Results from this study suggest that a prescriptive vigil conducted by a trained music thanatologist could provide an effective form of palliative care for dying patients. Clerics probably knew the vigils celebrated by their counterparts in neighbouring city-states, but there is no evidence that the tradition of one cathedral directly influenced that of another. His observance of propriety is such that he never enters their living quarters, and keeps vigil outside their door every night, reading a book under candle light. Sites of the vigils are underlined. These coincidences do happen—that a letter is written on the vigil of a debate such as this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Are the annual commemorations and vigils of recent years still being allowed? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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