yawn
[jɔ:n]
v.打呵欠, 张开
n.呵欠, <口>乏味的人(事)
例句与用法:
His long boring story made me yawn.
他的冗长的故事听得我直打呵欠。
I gave a loud yawn, but he just kept on talking.
我大声打了个呵欠,可他还是不停地讲下去。
词形变化:
名词: yawner | 动词过去式: yawned | 动词过去分词: yawned | 动词现在分词: yawning | 动词第三人称单数: yawns |
n.
1. 呵欠[C]
He stretched himself with a yawn.
他打了个呵欠伸了伸懒腰。
2. 裂口, 豁口; 凹口[C]
3. 【口】乏味的人(或事)[S]
The play was a big yawn from start to finish.
那出戏从头至尾极其乏味。
vi.
1. 打呵欠
Mr. Walsh yawned over the evening papers.
华尔希先生一边看晚报一边打呵欠。
2. 裂开, 豁开
A big gap yawned between the rocks.
岩石间豁开一个大裂口。
vt.
打着呵欠说
The old man yawned a reply.
那老人打着呵欠作答。
yawn
名词复数:yawns
过去式:yawned
过去分词:yawned
现在进行时:yawning
词形变化:
名词: yawner | 动词过去式: yawned | 动词过去分词: yawned | 动词现在分词: yawning | 动词第三人称单数: yawns |
词义辨析:
同义参见:
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yawn[jɔ:n]vi.1.■打呵欠:She yawned during his lecture.她在他的课上不停地打呵欠。2.■张开;裂开:a yawning chasm裂着大口的陷窟vt.1.■打着呵欠说:He yawned a doubtful relay.他打着呵欠作了模棱两可的回答。2.■打呵欠致使:He yawned his jaws out of joint.他打呵欠打得下巴关节脱了臼。n.1.■呵欠2.■裂开;豁口;裂口3.■[亦作 yawner]令人讨厌的人(或事),乏味的东西make someone yawn令人厌倦,使人想睡觉;使某人想打呵欠
yawnyawn[jɔ:n]vi.1.■打呵欠2.■张开; 裂开, 间[缝]隙He closed the book, yawned, and went to bed.他合起书, 打了个呵欠, 然后上床睡觉了。
词性变化yawn[jɔ:n]vt.1.■打着呵欠说He yawned out a good night.他打着呵欠道晚安。yawn[jɔ:n]n.1.■打呵欠2.■张开; 裂开3.■乏味的东西; 讨厌的人[物]
继承用法yawnern.yawnful[ˈjɔ:nfʊl]adj.yawny[ˈjɔ:nɪ]adj.1.■令人打呵欠的
词性变化yawn[jɔ:n]adj.
verb
- [no obj.]involuntarily open one's mouth wide and inhale deeply due to tiredness or boredom
打呵欠,欠伸
he began yawning and looking at his watch.
他开始打呵欠,并看了看手表。
■[usu. as adj. yawning]be wide open
裂开,豁开
a yawning chasm.
一个正在裂开的深坑。
- a reflex act of opening one's mouth wide and inhaling deeply due to tiredness or boredom
呵欠,哈欠
■(informal)a thing that is considered boring or tedious
(非正式)乏味的事
a long period of your life is a yawn to everyone.
你一生中有很长一段时光对大家而言都是平淡乏味的。
yawningly
adverb
语源
- Old English geonian, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin hiare and Greek khainein. Current noun senses date from the early 18th cent
yawn
名词 yawn:
an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom
同义词:yawning, oscitance, oscitancy
动词 yawn:
utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired
be wide open
yawn
■A major yawn, but hear me out because this stuff is effing cool.
妳们都在想什么)肯定打呵欠,但是听我说,因为这东西太他妈酷了。
■yawn for sb.
(地狱)张着大口等着某人
■D:(pretend to yawn)I can't wait to lie down on my sofa. I'm so sleepy.(yawn again)
(装打哈欠)我恨不得马上躺在沙发上。真困!(打哈欠)
■With a yawn, Ken opened his eyes to see Joe standing in the doorway of his hospital room, leaning against the jamb with his arms crossed."What time is it?
/ 藉由一个哈欠,肯恩打开了他的眼睛见在他的医院房间的门口中站立,倚靠有他的被交叉的手臂侧柱的乔。
■throw a technicolor yawn
vt. 呕吐
■" "Thank you, my lady," answered the girl, who looked very sleepy, and had some difficulty in repressing a yawn even in her mistress's presence, for the Audley housebold usually kept very early hours.
“谢谢你,爵士夫人,”侍女答道,她看上去挺疲倦,即使在女主人面前,要想抑制一个呵欠也有些困难,因为奥德利府邸里往常总是睡得很早的。
■A new idea is delicate.It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn;it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
一个新的想法是非常脆弱的,他可能被一声耻笑或一个呵欠扼杀,可能被一句嘲讽刺中身亡,或者因某位权威人士皱一下眉便郁郁而终。
■Boring lectures make me yawn.
乏味的演讲让我呵欠连天。
■Or so people thought.In recent years, though, a few radicals have said the preceding is all malarkey.Who knows, they say, maybe we yawn because it's too warm in the room.
也有些人说那些所谓的科学解释全是胡扯,打哈欠就是因为屋里太暖和了。
■They say my story is a yawn.
人们说,我的故事乏味得很。
■People usually yawn when stretching, although most people don't stretch every time they yawn.
人们通常在伸懒腰时会打哈欠,尽管大多数人不是每次打哈欠都伸懒腰。
■Shuddering in his efforts to repress a yawn of nervousness, he asked in his flat northern voice.
他不禁战栗了一下,尽力克制着内心的紧张,用他那起伏不大的北方腔调问道。
■Don't they just sleep on icebergs and yawn all the time?
他们不就是躺在冰山上,成天打哈欠吗?
■They were all so tired that they could do nothing but yawn.
他们太累了,除了伸懒腰什么都做不了了。
■They were so tired they could do nothing but yawn.
他们如此疲劳以至于什么也不能做,只有打哈欠。
■They think it's a yawn."
他们认为它简直是枯燥无味的。”
■He rubbed his eyes and yawn as though wake up after a long sleep.
他又揉眼睛又打哈欠, 好像睡了一大觉刚醒似的。
■He sent Brian Cook and Maurice Evans to Orlando for Trevor Ariza -- initially drawing a collective yawn from Lakers fans.
他又用库克和埃文斯换来了魔术队的阿里扎--来博取湖人球迷的心。
■He discovered that people do not yawn as a way to force out carbon dioxide gas from their lungs or to get more oxygen.
他发现人们不是把打哈欠作为一种用力吐出他们肺里的二氧化碳或得到更多的氧气的方法。
■He found that people yawn more when they are bored or not interested in what they are doing.
他发现人们在感到厌烦或对他们所做的不感兴趣时打更多的哈欠。
■So at last, with a sigh and a yawn, he gave it up.
他只好叹叹气,打了个呵欠,最后取消了看书学习的念头。
■He gave an ostentatious yawn.
他张扬地打了个哈欠。
■He gave a yawn and then fell asleep.
他打了一个哈欠之后就睡着了。
■He stretched himself with a yawn.
他打了个呵欠伸了伸懒腰。
■He yawn me good night.
他打呵欠跟我说了一声“晚安”。
■He tried to suppress a yawn
他打消想偷窃的念头。
■He smothered a yawn behind his hand .
他用手挡住嘴遮掩自己打哈欠。
■His long boring story made me yawn.
他的冗长的故事听得我直打呵欠。
■His speech made me yawn.
他的演讲令我打哈欠。
■He faked a yawn.
他装着打了一个呵欠。
■He noticed red-haired Lieutenant Miles Sharpe standing in the passageway, stifling a yawn.
他见到一头红发的迈尔斯?夏普上尉正站在过道里蔫蔫的打着呵欠。
■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。
■He got up with a stretch and a yawn.
他起来后伸伸懒腰,打个呵欠。
■His long lecture made us yawn.
他那冗长的演讲使我们听得想打瞌睡。
■His zealous but long speech made us yawn.
他那热情但冗长的演讲让我们打哈欠。
■His long story make me yawn.
他那长篇故事使我厌倦不已。
■make someone yawn
令人厌倦,使某人想睡觉,使某人打呵欠
■Elaine and Ted, co-workers, are eating lunch together. Elaine stifles a yawn.
伊莲和泰德是同事,两人一起吃午餐,伊莲强忍住一个呵欠。
■stretch oneself with a yawn
伸懒腰打呵欠
■with a stretch and a yawn
伸着懒腰打着呵欠
■Smart women will have to be careful not to yawn in the streets in case some short sighted person is on his way to post a letter.
但她们在街上可千万别打哈欠,要不然,那些近视眼们会误以为遇上了邮筒而往他们的嘴里塞信。
■But he says he still does not know why people yawn.
但是他说他还是不知道人们为什么打哈欠。
■You shouldn't yawn when you're in class.
你不该在上课时打哈欠。
■Do you ever wonder why you yawn?
你曾经想过你为什么打哈欠吗?
■Do you start the day with a yawn instead of a smile?
你每天是不是以一个哈欠开始工作,而不是满面笑容?
■make sb yawn
使(某人)困倦
■Like all people he hated having someone yawn while listening to him.A year's experience in the classroom with hypnosis in disguise had only increased this hatred.He immediately stopped.
像一切人,鸿渐恨旁人听自己说话的时候打呵欠,一年来在课堂上变相催眠的经验更增加了他的恨,他立刻闭嘴。
■Outside the closed curtains of the bedroom a vast transformation scene is taking place, just as if a myriad elves and brownies were at work, and we turn and yawn and stretch and know nothing about it.
卧室里窗帘拉拢了,外面却发生着翻天覆地的变化,犹如无数的精灵仙童在悄悄地施展魔法,而我们却只是翻个身,打个呵欠、伸一下懒腰,对此毫无知觉。
■Smart women will have to be careful not to yawn in the streets in case some shortsighted person is on his way to post a letter.
可是聪明的女子得小心一点,别在街头打哈欠,以防目光近视者正在去邮寄信件。
■Can you hear my yawn?
听得见我打呵欠的声音么?