yawn
yawn 英 [jɔ:n] 美 [jɔn]
n. 哈欠，开大口 v. 打哈欠
进行时:yawning 过去式:yawned 过去分词:yawned 第三人称单数:yawns 名词复数:yawns
- The reflex that makes you open your mouth wide, inhale, and then exhale is called a yawn. Even seeing photos of other people's yawns (or reading the word yawn) can make you yawn.
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- n. 哈欠，开大口
- v. 打哈欠
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1. Then they start to yawn, we start to yawn.
然后他们开始打哈欠，我们也开始打哈欠。
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2. He stood up, stretched and yawned.
他站起身来，伸了个懒腰，打了个哈欠。
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3. A crevasse yawned at their feet.
他们的脚下是一条张开大口的裂缝。
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4. There's a yawning gap between rich and poor.
贫富之间有一条鸿沟。
- yawn (n.) "act of yawning," 1690s, from yawn (v.). Meaning "boring thing" is attested from 1889.
- yawn (v.) c. 1300, yenen, yonen, from Old English ginian, gionian "open the mouth wide, yawn, gape," from Proto-Germanic *gin- (source also of Old Norse gina "to yawn," Dutch geeuwen, Old High German ginen, German gähnen "to yawn"), from PIE *ghai- "to yawn, gape" (source also of Old Church Slavonic zijajo "to gape," Lithuanian žioju, žioti, Czech zivati "to yawn," Greek khainein, Latin hiare "to yawn, gape," Sanskrit vijihite "to gape, be ajar"). Modern spelling is from 16c. Related: Yawned; yawning.
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