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

• 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。
• 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。
• People are less likely to engage in contagious yawns when they have emotional or social disorders that prevent them from feeling empathy, the study says.
  但那些因患有情绪或社交障碍而无法设身处地理解他人的人则不太可能会被别人的哈欠所感染。
• 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。
• 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。
• While yawns do not seem to have a connection with any particular emotion ( unlike, say, smiles, which could indicate happiness), in some ways we are forming an emotional connection by mimicking a yawn, Matthew Campbell of Emory University said.
  埃默里大学的马修坎贝尔认为，哈欠似乎不与任何一种特殊的情绪相关，所以在某种程度上，我们通过跟着对方打哈欠，或其它的表达方式，来形成一种情绪上的共鸣。
• 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。
• Mr. Weaver stretches, yawns, rises reluctantly and plods heavily into the bathroom.
  韦佛先生伸伸懒腰打了个呵欠，勉强起床，迈着沉重的脚步走进浴室去。
• The real question is whether there's actually something physiological at work here, and the answer is likely yes: even chimpanzees mimic each other's yawns.
  真正的问题在于，这其中究竟有没有什么生理学上的依据在起作用，而答案很可能是肯定的。科学家发现，就连黑猩猩之间，打哈欠也是会相互传染的。