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watchful
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🇺🇸 /wˈɑtʃfʌl/
🇬🇧 /ˈwɒt͡ʃ.fəl/
watchful 形容始终留心观察、保持警觉，随时注意可能发生的情况。
💡 记忆钩子
把 watchful 想成“睁着眼守望”：一个人一直留意周围的人和事，因此既可以说他在警觉地观察，也常表示他对某人或某事特别小心照看。
📖 中文释义
adj
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core 警觉的；密切留意的📖 指一个人始终睁大眼睛观察，保持警觉并注意周围情况；也可指对某人或某事进行小心、持续的照看。💡 常用“keep a watchful eye on + 人/事物”表示“密切关注、留心照看”，也可用“a watchful parent/guard”这类结构作定语。它通常描述持续而谨慎的观察，不等于单纯的“看见”或“感兴趣”；中文学习者不要把它误用成表示“仔细观看”的普通形容词。The teacher kept a watchful eye on her pupils during the school trip.老师在学校旅行期间一直密切照看着学生们。
more watchful
comparative
most watchful
superlative
📘 英文释义 (WordNet)
共 2 组
engaged in or accustomed to close observation; ;
同义词集:
alert
watchful
caught by a couple of alert cops
alert enough to spot the opportunity when it came
constantly alert and vigilant, like a sentinel on duty
近似: argus-eyed, fly, heads-up, lidless, open-eyed, sleepless, vigilant, wakeful, wide-awake
参见: lively, wary
experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; ; ; ; - Shakespeare
同义词集:
insomniac
sleepless
watchful
insomniac old people
insomniac nights
lay sleepless all night
twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights
🌳 词源
源自中古英语 waccheful，由 watch（观察、守望）加后缀 -ful 构成，字面上可理解为“充满守望的”。
From Middle English waccheful, equivalent to watch + -ful. Compare West Frisian waaks (“watchful”), Dutch waaks, waakzaam (“watchful”), German wachsam (“watchful”), Swedish vaksam (“watchful”).
🔄 变式
more watchful
compar
most watchful
superl
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