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 small lion cub yawns while resting with its pride in Savuti, Botswana.
  博茨瓦那的萨谬提，一只非洲狮幼崽正和它的狮群在一起休息，它正打着哈欠。
• As for the larger question of why yawns are catching, nobody really knows.
  至于那个更深的问题，为什么打哈欠是传染的，还没有答案呢。
• 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。
• People are less likely to engage in contagious yawns when they have emotional or social disorders that prevent them from feeling empathy, the study says.
  但那些因患有情绪或社交障碍而无法设身处地理解他人的人则不太可能会被别人的哈欠所感染。
• Fang's willful adoption of the bald head therefore marked his figures as hooligans, social outcasts whose blase expressions often cannot be differentiated from laughter, yawns, and screams.
  方力钧故意把光头的人物，描绘为流氓和社会弃儿，令旁人未能辨出他们是大笑、打呵欠，还是尖叫的表情。
• His yawns suggested that he would like to go to bed.
  他哈欠连天，说明他该上床睡觉了。
• She yawns evenly and turns to him.
  她不紧不慢地打了个呵欠，向他转过脸来。
• History loves this kind of meaty record. But politics yawns at it.
  历史喜爱这种内涵丰富的记录，但政治对此无动于衷。
• His yawns suggested he was either tired or bored.
  他呵欠连天说明他不是疲倦，就是厌倦。
• A yawn is an instinctive behavior: You don't have to learn to do it, and yawns are even present before birth.
  打哈欠是人的本能行为：你不需要去学它，甚至在我们出生之前我们就已经学会打哈欠了。