vigil

名词 vigil:

1. a period of sleeplessness
2. the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
   同义词：watch
3. a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
   同义词：watch

1. The detectives resumed their vigil at the house.
   侦探们又开始在那楝房子警戒了。
2. One who keeps vigil, as at a sick person's bedside.
   护理者如在病人身旁等看护的人
3. She kept an all-night vigil by the patient's bedside.
   她整夜守在病人旁边。

vig.il

n.（名词）

A watch kept during normal sleeping hours.
守夜，值夜：在正常睡眠时间里的监视
The act or a period of observing; surveillance.
观察；警戒：观察或监视的行为或时间
The eve of a religious festival as observed by devotional watching.
守夜：宗教节日的前夕，通过虔诚的守夜庆祝
Often vigils Ritual devotions observed on the eve of a holy day.
常作 vigils 在宗教节日前的祈祷

来源：
Middle English vigile [a devotional watching]
中古英语 vigile [虔诚的守夜]
from Old French
源自 古法语
from Latin vigilia [wakefulness, watch]
源自 拉丁语 vigilia [不眠，监视]
from vigil [awake] * see weg-
源自 vigil [醒过来] *参见 weg-