yawning

1. VERB 打哈欠
   If you yawn, 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. Yawn is also a noun.
      
   4. Rosanna stifled a huge yawn.
      罗莎娜想打个大哈欠，但强忍住了。
2. N-SING 乏味的事物;枯燥的事物
   If you describe something such as a book or a film as a 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。
3. VERB （裂隙或缺口）裂开，豁开
   A gap or an opening that yawns is 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。

1. A yawning North-South gulf has opened up with both sides digging in.
   双方都坚持自己的立场，南北之间出现了一条鸿沟。
2. Yawning involves opening the mouth involuntarily while taking a long, deep breath of air.
   打呵欠使人在不由自主张开嘴的同时，能长长的、深深的吸一口气。
3. You may be yawning right now as you read this!
   你读到此时，可能便想打哈欠！
4. 108. At the dawn on the lawn the yawning drowned man began to frown.
   108.拂晓时在草坪上，打呵欠的溺水者开始皱眉头。
5. Heigh-ho-there I'm yawning again.
   嗨嗬瞧我又打呵欠了。
6. Yawning or sighing are usually signs of mental or physical fatigue.
   打哈欠或叹气通常是精神或身体上疲倦的标志。
7. Yawning and shivering slightly, Harry climbed out of bed and tried to find his Quidditch robes.
   哈利打着哈欠，微微哆嗉着，从床上爬了起来，开始找他的队服。
8. But a yawning gap, and grass nowhere.
   但有个裂缝的缺口，并且寸草不生。
9. The study, described in the journal Child Development, involved adult volunteers yawning in front of kids.
   这项刊登在儿童发展杂志的研究，还包括了成年的志愿者在小孩儿面前打的哈气。
10. When he pumped pure oxygen into subjects, for example, their frequency of yawning did not change.
    当他将纯氧注入实验对象时，他们打哈欠的频率并没有发生什么变化。
11. We were so bored that we couldn't help yawning.
    我们厌烦得要命，禁不住打起了呵欠。
12. We should, however, be careful not to misinterpret the yawning gap between expectations and fulfilments.
    然而，我们要当心，千万不要对这种期盼和现实之间的巨大鸿沟产生误解。
13. Oh, excuse me; I can't stop yawning.
    啊，对不起，我实在忍不住打哈欠。
14. A yawning man is lying on a lawn in the dawn.
    一个打呵欠的人在拂晓躺在草地上。
15. Some scientists believe that yawning makes you more a alert, when you yawn, you breathe more deeply, you also stretch your muscle in your face and your neck.
    许多科学家认为打哈欠让你更加警觉。当你打哈欠时，你呼吸更深，你还伸展你脸部和脖子上的肌肉。
16. As a matter of fact, I found myself yawning a lot as I prepared this report.
    事实上，他发现他自己在准备这份报告时打了很多哈欠。
17. He says yawning seems linked in some way to sleeping.
    他说从某方面上看打哈欠似乎与睡眠有关。
18. He said there is some evidence that yawning is linked to excitement.
    他说有证据说明打哈欠与兴奋联系。
19. 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。
20. Although we associate yawning with sleepiness and boredom, its function appears to be to wake us up.
    虽然我们把打哈欠与睡意和厌倦联系在一起，但打哈欠的作用似乎是使人清醒。
21. This South African lion looks a bit grouchy, but he was actually yawning.
    这头南非狮子看起来有点不高兴，实际上它是在打个哈欠。
22. Stop yawning in my class.
    在我的课堂上不允许打哈欠。
23. There is a yawning gap between political rhetoric and reality.
    政治高调和现实之间的差距越来越大。
24. But shaking up the economy and plugging the yawning chasm in the public finances requires legislation.
    我认为应该是但是公共财务中重组经济和填补正在变大的窟窿（财政赤字）需要立法的帮助。
25. Even when I started yawning, he didn't get the message but just kept talking.
    甚至当我打呵欠时，他还是没有明白，只是继续谈下去。
26. I felt so sleepy I couldn't stop yawning.
    我感到很困，止不住地打呵欠。
27. "I'm so tired," she said, yawning and stretching.
    我太累了，她打着呵欠伸着懒腰说道。
28. While his administration is determined to force rapid economic development, its approach has created a yawning income gap.
    尽管新疆自治区政府决心推动经济快速发展，但其方式却造成了收入差距的扩大。
29. Even so, there is a yawning gap with China.
    即便如此，印度与中国的差距依然巨大。
30. I was yawning; it had been a long day and I was ready for bed.
    我不由地哈欠连天；这可是漫长的一天，我想要睡觉了。

noun

1. 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:    yawnoscitanceoscitancy

adj

1. gaping open as if threatening to engulf someone or something
   1. the yawning mine shaft
   2. a yawning abyss

2. with the mouth wide open indicating boredom or sleepiness
   1. a yawning congregation