yawn

英 [jɔːn]

美 [jɔːn]

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)

过去式：yawned　现在分词：yawning　第三人称单数：yawns　复数：yawns　过去分词：yawned　

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Oxford 3000 / Collins.1 / BNC.10509 / COCA.10649

牛津词典

verb

• 打哈欠
  to open your mouth wide and breathe in deeply through it, usually because you are tired or bored
  1. He stood up, stretched and yawned.
     他站起身来，伸了个懒腰，打了个哈欠。
• 非常宽；难以逾越
  to be very wide and often frightening and difficult to get across
  1. A crevasse yawned at their feet.
     他们的脚下是一条张开大口的裂缝。
  2. There's a yawning gap between rich and poor.
     贫富之间有一条鸿沟。

noun

• 哈欠
  an act of yawning
  1. She stifled another yawn and tried hard to look interested.
     她又忍住了哈欠，竭力显出感兴趣的样子。
• 乏味的事情；令人厌烦的观点（等）
  a boring event, idea, etc.
  1. The meeting was one big yawn from start to finish.
     这个会议自始至终都无聊透顶。

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。

英英释义

noun

• an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth
  1. he could not suppress a yawn
  2. the yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop
  3. he apologized for his oscitancy
  Synonym:yawningoscitanceoscitancy

verb

• utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired
  1. The child yawned during the long performance
• be wide open
  1. the deep gaping canyon
  Synonym:gapeyaw

双语例句

• She makes no attempt to stifle a yawn
  她忍不住打了个哈欠。
• But that yawn may not mean what you think.
  但对于这个哈欠，也可能是你想得太多了。
• Her yawn suggests that she is sleepy.
  她打哈欠，表示她很困了。
• The concert was a predictable yawn.
  果不其然，那场音乐会很乏味。
• I wonder if hearing it may make you yawn.
  我想知道在听它时你是否打哈欠了。
• If you yawn a lot, sometimes he copies you.
  如果你打很多呵欠有时它会学你的。
• He says almost anything connected with yawning can make people yawn.
  他说几乎任何和打哈欠有关的事都能使人们打哈欠。
• He got up with a stretch and a yawn.
  他站起来伸伸懒腰，打个呵欠。
• He yawn me good night.
  他打呵欠跟我说了一声晚安。
• I just swallowed my yawn, Mommy, so I won't be tired anymore.
  妈妈，我刚把我的哈欠吞下去了，所以我不会再觉得困了。