此情此景，让老妇人如梦初醒。

Seeing this, the old woman was like a person waking from a dream.

也许确实有十指连心的伤害，如梦初醒的背叛，不胜其烦的纠缠。

Perhaps truly has the intimately connected injury, as if awakening from a dream betrayal, burdensome entanglement.

现在，农夫的儿子已经染上了这种药水，终于如梦初醒，他知道这是不对的，想要痛改前非。

Now, the farmer's son, truth be told, had dabbled in this kind of potion before, but he knew it was wrong and had sworn off it.

“用词汇来回顾21世纪的头十年是个如梦初醒，甚至悲观的事情。”全球语言监测机构总裁鲍尔·JJ·佩亚克说。

"Looking at the first decade of the 21st century in words is a sober, even sombre, event, " said Paul JJ Payack, president of The Global Language Monitor.