yawning
英 [ˈjɔːnɪŋ]
美 [ˈjɔːnɪŋ]
v. 打哈欠; 非常宽; 难以逾越
yawn的现在分词
现在分词:yawning
BNC.19088 / COCA.20477
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.- She yawned, and stretched lazily...
她打了个哈欠,伸了个懒腰。 - 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。 - Yawnis also a noun.
- Rosanna stifled a huge yawn.
罗莎娜想打个大哈欠,但强忍住了。
- She yawned, and stretched lazily...
- 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- The debate was a mockery. A big yawn...
这场辩论实在可笑。简直是无聊透顶。 - The concert was a predictable yawn.
果不其然,那场音乐会很乏味。
- The debate was a mockery. A big yawn...
- VERB (裂隙或缺口)裂开,豁开
A gap or an opening thatyawnsis large and wide, and often frightening.- 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。 - 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。
- The gulf between them yawned wider than ever...
英英释义
noun
- an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth
- he could not suppress a yawn
- the yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop
- he apologized for his oscitancy
adj
- gaping open as if threatening to engulf someone or something
- the yawning mine shaft
- a yawning abyss
- with the mouth wide open indicating boredom or sleepiness
- a yawning congregation
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。