Charlie is asleep in the other room, but he wakens to the sound of his mother shrieking.

查理在另一个房间睡觉，但被母亲的尖叫声吵醒。

" Who" ? demanded those who had been really asleep, and who had wakened to they knew not what.

" 抓住谁了？" 真在睡觉的人莫名其妙地惊醒过来，问道。

This is a religious allegory, based on the idea that life is a dream until death wakens us to a greater life with God.

这是一部宗教寓言 它基于这样一种观念：生命是一场梦，直到死亡唤醒了我们，让我们跟随上帝一起过上更加美好的生活。

This mental inertia of science lasted through the eighties before showing signs of breaking up; and nothing short of radium fairly wakened men to the fact, long since evident, that force was inexhaustible.

这种科学的精神惰性一直持续到八十年代， 然后才出现分崩离析的迹象。 除了镭之外， 没有任何东西可以让人们意识到， 这种力量是取之不尽用之不竭的事实， 这一事实早已显而易见。