The invention provides an alarm clock awakening method and a terminal. The alarm clock awakening method is applied to the terminal. The method comprises the steps of: when the terminal plays an awakening alarm, if the operation that a user stops the awakening alarm is received, suspending playing of the awakening alarm, and furthermore, obtaining the time when playing of the awakening alarm is suspended; broadcasting the time when playing of the awakening alarm is suspended, and determining the time when playing of the awakening alarm is suspended as the beginning time of a pre-set time slot; and, in the pre-set time slot, if real-time audios input by the user are received, judging whether the real-time audios are matched with pre-set standard audios or not, and, if the real-time audios are matched with the pre-set standard audios, stopping the awakening alarm. Thereby, the complex degree of the awakening alarm stopping operation is increased, so that the awakening effect is improved.