(a.) Attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for
safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary.
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双语例句
These policemen follow the executive officer's boat from shore to ship and from ship to shore and watch his dark maneuvres with a vigilant eye. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
The forewarning of my instinct was but fulfilled, when I discovered her, all cold and vigilant, perched like a white bird on the outside of the bed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
However, Versailles patrols drove them in again; as the vigilant Lecointre had strictly charged them to do. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Mr. Bucket came out again, exhorting the others to be vigilant, darkened his lantern, and once more took his seat. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Though, to do him justice, he lay awake many an hour, silent and without stirring, unwilling to awaken his kind and vigilant nurse. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Be you vigilant also, Lina. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Nothing is more vigilant and inventive than our passions; and nothing is more obvious, than the convention for the observance of these rules. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman, and Miss Peecher kept him on double duty over Mr Bradley Headstone. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
General Weitzel will keep vigilant watch upon his front, and if found at all practicable to break through at any point, he will do so. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
He is always vigilant and always near me. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Nothing could be less demonstrative than the friendship of the elder lady, but also nothing could be more vigilant, assiduous, untiring. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
To be vigilant in making themselves respected. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.