When you awake or when something awakes you, you wake up.
At midnight he awoke and listened to the radio for a few minutes...
他半夜醒来，听了一会儿收音机。
当两个词都做动词的时候，请看下面的例句：
When you awake or when something awakes you, you wake up.
At midnight he awoke and listened to the radio for a few minutes...
他半夜醒来，听了一会儿收音机。
When you wake or when someone or something wakes you, you become conscious again after being asleep.
It was cold and dark when I woke at 6.30...
我6点半醒来时，天又冷又黑。
这两个词可以互换，属同义词， 只不过 awake更加正式。 然而......
wake多用其动词； awake 多用其形容词:
awake ADJ-GRADED
Someone who is awake is not sleeping. 醒着的；没睡着的
I don't stay awake at night worrying about that. 我并没有因为那件事而担心得彻夜不眠。
搭配的副词：wide awake
Someone who is wide awake is fully awake and unable to sleep.
I could not relax and still felt wide awake. 我没法放松下来，还是觉得睡意全无。
此外， wake 作为名词，有两个含义 ：
1 A wake is a gathering or social event that is held before or after someone's funeral. 追思会
A funeral wake was in progress.追思会正在进行
2 N-COUNT
The wake of a boat or other object moving in water is the track of waves that it makes behind it as it moves through the water. (航行中的船等留下的)伴流，尾流，航迹
The ride was smooth until they got into the merchant ship's wake.航行一直很顺利，直到他们碰上了商船的尾流。
一些常见的搭配也请一并复习一下：
1 If one thing follows in the wake of another, it happens after the other thing is over, often as a result of it. 随着…而来;作为…的结果
The governor has enjoyed a huge surge in the polls in the wake of last week's convention. 上周的大会过后，民意调查显示州长支持率大幅上升。
2 Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.醒着的时间;非睡眠时间
It was work which consumed most of his waking hours. 他醒着的时候大部分时间都在工作。
3 If you are following in someone's wake, you are following them or their example. 紧随…;效仿…
In his wake came a waiter wheeling a trolley.一位推着手推车的侍者紧随着他过来。
最后，这两个词动词过去式、过去分词是同样的变法，请一起记：
wake, woke, woken
awake, awoke, awoken
