awakening

People are gradually awakening to their rights.

人们正逐渐意识到自己权。

The most likely explanation for alien abductions is sleep paralysis and hypnopompic (on awakening) hallucinations.

遭外星人绑架最合理解释是睡眠麻痹（sleepparalysis，民间所说鬼压床）和将（hypnopompichallucination）。

I hadn't studied hard at college and so I had a rude awakening after I began to work.

我在大学时念书不用功, 开始参加工作后才后悔莫及。

"We had all been enjoying ourselves, but the rude awakening came when our firm started to lose money."

"我们一直得很痛快,但当我们公司开始赔本时,我们才猛然发事情不妙。"

If orthopnea causes awakening during the night and is relieved by sitting, it is called paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea.

如果端坐呼吸引起夜间，经坐起缓解，是为阵发性夜间呼吸困难。