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
- This South African lion looks a bit grouchy, but he was actually yawning.
这头南非狮子看起来有点不高兴,实际上它是在打个哈欠。 - 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。 - You may be yawning right now as you read this!
你读到此时,可能便想打哈欠! - But a yawning gap, and grass nowhere.
但有个裂缝的缺口,并且寸草不生。 - 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。 - There is a yawning gap between political rhetoric and reality.
政治高调和现实之间的差距越来越大。 - 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。 - He says yawning seems linked in some way to sleeping.
他说从某方面上看打哈欠似乎与睡眠有关。 - 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。 - When he pumped pure oxygen into subjects, for example, their frequency of yawning did not change.
当他将纯氧注入实验对象时,他们打哈欠的频率并没有发生什么变化。