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

• Easy is the road down to Hell. The hell yawns for him.
  疏忽是通向地狱之路。
• As for the larger question of why yawns are catching, nobody really knows.
  至于那个更深的问题，为什么打哈欠是传染的，还没有答案呢。
• 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。
• However, too little shut-eye causes more than bleary eyes and big yawns.
  可知，睡眠不足容易导致的症状不只是睡眼朦胧和哈欠连天。
• Of course I'm telling the truth. I feel fine ( YAWNS).
  在有没有讲出他真实感觉这一点上是不是很危险了。
• 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。
• 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。
• His yawns suggested that he would like to go to bed.
  他哈欠连天，说明他该上床睡觉了。
• 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。