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

• 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。
• 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。
• Fang's willful adoption of the bald head therefore marked his figures as hooligans, social outcasts whose blase expressions often cannot be differentiated from laughter, yawns, and screams.
  方力钧故意把光头的人物，描绘为流氓和社会弃儿，令旁人未能辨出他们是大笑、打呵欠，还是尖叫的表情。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A pupil yawns during the ceremony of the beginning of the new school year in Moscow.
  在莫斯科一学校的开学典礼上，一名小学生以打呵欠来迎接新的学年。
• 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。
• A bottomless pit yawns below it.
  且有一个无底洞在它下面。
• 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。