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

  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。
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双语例句

  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. 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。
  4. 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。
  5. 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。
  6. 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。
  7. 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。
  8. Easy is the road down to Hell. The hell yawns for him.
    疏忽是通向地狱之路。
  9. 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。
  10. 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”。
  11. 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。
  12. 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。
  13. 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。
  14. 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。
  15. 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。
  16. A bottomless pit yawns below it.
    且有一个无底洞在它下面。
  17. 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。
  18. Digestion problems, sleeplessness, frequent yawns, restlessness and many more are some of the results of tension and anxiety.
    消化问题、失眠、经常打了个哈欠，烦躁不安，更多的是一些结果的紧张和焦虑。
  19. Of course I'm telling the truth. I feel fine ( YAWNS).
    在有没有讲出他真实感觉这一点上是不是很危险了。
  20. She yawns evenly and turns to him.
    她不紧不慢地打了个呵欠，向他转过脸来。
  21. The hell yawns for him.
    地狱张着大口等他。
  22. 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。
  23. 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。
  24. 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。
  25. Seeing the yawns of the children, she sent them to bed.
    看到孩子们在打呵欠，她就打发他们去睡觉了。
  26. 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。
  27. 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。
  28. 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。
  29. However, too little shut-eye causes more than bleary eyes and big yawns.
    可知，睡眠不足容易导致的症状不只是睡眼朦胧和哈欠连天。
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