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

• 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。
• A lioness yawns inside her cage at Buenos Aires Zoo in Argentina.
  阿根廷的布宜诺斯艾利斯动物园，一只母狮在笼子里“狮子大开口”。
• It's easy to be offended when a colleague yawns while you're talking.
  人们很容易会被这样一种行为惹恼：当你说话的时候，你的同事却在打着哈欠。
• 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。
• A pupil yawns during the ceremony of the beginning of the new school year in Moscow.
  在莫斯科一学校的开学典礼上，一名小学生以打呵欠来迎接新的学年。
• 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。
• 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。
• She yawns evenly and turns to him.
  她不紧不慢地打了个呵欠，向他转过脸来。
• 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。
• What yawns don't accomplish, researchers say, is to re-energize the brain.
  研究人员还称，打哈欠无法让大脑重新活跃起来。