vigil

/ˈvɪd͡ʒəl/ 名词 C1

中文：值夜、警戒、守夜祈祷

An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.
A period of observation or surveillance at any hour. · His dog kept vigil outside the hospital for eight days while he was recovering from an accident.
The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.
A quiet demonstration in support of a cause. · The protesters kept vigil outside the conference centre in which the party congress was being held.

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But she went away kindly, leaving Anne alone to keep her first vigil with sorrow.

“The night was fine, but still it was a very weary vigil.

It proved, however, that our vigil was not to be so long as Holmes had led us to fear, and it ended in a very sudden and singular fashion.

The village sergeant, a tall, formal, melancholy man, still held his vigil in the room of Fate.

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