yawns

英 [jɔːnz]

美 [jɔːnz]

v.  打哈欠; 非常宽; 难以逾越
n.  哈欠; 乏味的事情; 令人厌烦的观点(等)
yawn的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 打哈欠
  If youyawn, you open your mouth very wide and breathe in more air than usual, often when you are tired or when you are not interested in something.
  1. She yawned, and stretched lazily...
     她打了个哈欠，伸了个懒腰。
  2. They looked bored and yawned at the speeches.
     他们看起来已经厌倦了这些演讲，直打哈欠。
  3. Yawnis also a noun.
     
  4. Rosanna stifled a huge yawn.
     罗莎娜想打个大哈欠，但强忍住了。
• N-SING 乏味的事物;枯燥的事物
  If you describe something such as a book or a film asa yawn, you think it is very boring
  1. The debate was a mockery. A big yawn...
     这场辩论实在可笑。简直是无聊透顶。
  2. The concert was a predictable yawn.
     果不其然，那场音乐会很乏味。
• VERB （裂隙或缺口）裂开，豁开
  A gap or an opening thatyawnsis large and wide, and often frightening.
  1. The gulf between them yawned wider than ever...
     他们之间的隔阂比以往任何时候都要深。
  2. Liddie's doorway yawned blackly open at the end of the hall.
     走廊尽头利迪的门黑洞洞地敞开着。

双语例句

• A widening gap also yawns between Pyongyang and the rest of the country.
  平壤和朝鲜其他地区的差距也日益拉大。
• In the moat at their foot yawns the grave of the gentile constitution, and already they rear their towers into civilization.
  它们的壕沟深陷为氏族制度的墓穴，而它们的城楼已经高耸入文明时代了。
• Easy is the road down to Hell. The hell yawns for him.
  疏忽是通向地狱之路。
• While yawns do not seem to have a connection with any particular emotion ( unlike, say, smiles, which could indicate happiness), in some ways we are forming an emotional connection by mimicking a yawn, Matthew Campbell of Emory University said.
  埃默里大学的马修坎贝尔认为，哈欠似乎不与任何一种特殊的情绪相关，所以在某种程度上，我们通过跟着对方打哈欠，或其它的表达方式，来形成一种情绪上的共鸣。
• The real question is whether there's actually something physiological at work here, and the answer is likely yes: even chimpanzees mimic each other's yawns.
  真正的问题在于，这其中究竟有没有什么生理学上的依据在起作用，而答案很可能是肯定的。科学家发现，就连黑猩猩之间，打哈欠也是会相互传染的。
• Mr. Weaver stretches, yawns, rises reluctantly and plods heavily into the bathroom.
  韦佛先生伸伸懒腰打了个呵欠，勉强起床，迈着沉重的脚步走进浴室去。
• We know that a lot of things are communicable in close quarters: colds, chicken pox, yawns.
  我们知道很多事物都会近距离传染：感冒、水痘、哈欠。
• He yawns, not troubling to cover his mouth
  他打了个哈欠，都懒得抬抬手遮一下嘴巴。
• A person yawns and you believe that person is bored with your message.
  一个人打呵欠，你会认为那个人对你的信息厌烦。
• The French colonel had much ado to suppress his yawns, but was courteous in his manner, and evidently understood all the importance of Balashov's position.
  法国上校竭力忍住打哈欠，但却很有礼貌，看来，他明白巴拉瑟夫的全部意思在那里。