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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Easy is the road down to Hell. The hell yawns for him.
  疏忽是通向地狱之路。