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

• 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 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”。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• She yawns evenly and turns to him.
  她不紧不慢地打了个呵欠，向他转过脸来。
• 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。