英:['wɒtʃfəlɪ]
美:['wɒtʃfəlɪ]
英:['wɒtʃfəlɪ]
美:['wɒtʃfəlɪ]
词根:watch
adj.watchful 注意的;警惕的;警醒的
n.watch 手表;监视;守护;值班人
watchfulness 警觉性
vi.watch 观看,注视;守侯,看守
vt.watch 观察;注视;看守;警戒
adjective
not able or accustomed to sleep or rest : wakeful
causing sleeplessness
spent in wakefulness : sleepless
carefully observant or attentive : being on the watch
The first known use of watchful was in the 15th century
watchfuladjective
continually on the lookout especially for danger
1 Lee said watchfully, smiling, “General Stuart is back.”
2 With his head on one side, and his eyes watchfully taking note of his listener's face, he bent forward with a certain vailed significance and clasped her hand.
3 She was therefore carefully secreted, and the fort watchfully guarded, until the violence of his passion was over.
4 When I saw the film, I noticed how watchfully Destiny enters every room.
5 We piled them into the smaller end of the log, and then lit them with our tinder-boxes, after which we stood about the larger opening and waited watchfully.
6 The conference has remained watchfully idle in the newest round of expansion shuffling, listening to prospective schools, but not actively pursuing them this time.
7 Those closest were wrapped in sleeping bags, sitting for the most part in fold-out chairs. A police car idled watchfully near by.
队伍最前面的人还包在睡袋里面,一辆警车在旁边看着这一切。
8 The boys were not inclined to sleep, so they sat watchfully in the cabin with the electricity off.
9 The authorities may need to have additional cameras to watchfully protect the first cameras.
10 They saw themselves merely as cautious and watchfully conservative about the pace of change.
11 Dean shows him at a distance, framed by his dancers, or watchfully close, the tendrils of his hair illuminated like a Rembrandt etching.
12 Watchfully mother's home with me.
妈妈翼翼的抱着我回了家。
13 There was a cry of collective horror — then the people around us became angrily, watchfully quiet.
14 The bland smile faded from her lips, the lines about her mouth took a harder set, the eyes were more watchfully on the alert.
15 Young Roy, to his vast content, was allowed to take out a boat and kill one of that last dozen, while Brander in his boat lay watchfully by.
16 My mom presided watchfully over the whole process, barking out reprimands whenever the men banged the cages.
17 On Thursday, neither the judges nor either side’s lawyer disputed the accounts of abuse made by former students, a few of whom sat watchfully in the courtroom.
18 Bangladesh was always behind the required run rate, with Shakib — with two half-centuries already to his name this World Cup — starting watchfully before opening his shoulders.
19 He disappeared behind the desk, again followed closely by Rhonda, who stood watchfully as he shuffled among some papers.
20 He went everywhere, sedately, watchfully, graciously, but never prominently.