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

• 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。
• A bottomless pit yawns below it.
  且有一个无底洞在它下面。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。