yawn: [OE] Yawn goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *ghei-, *ghi-, which also produced Greek kháskein ‘gape’ (a close relative of English chasm [17]) and Latin hiāre ‘gape, yawn’ (source of English hiatus [16]). The base passed into prehistoric Germanic as *gai-, *gi-, whose surviving descendants are German gähnen, Dutch geeuwen, and English yawn. English gap and gape probably come from an extension of the same Indo-European base. => chasm, gap, gape, hiatus
yawn (v.)
c. 1300, yenen, yonen, from Old English ginian, gionian "open the mouth wide, yawn, gape," from Proto-Germanic *gin- (cognates: Old Norse gina "to yawn," Dutch geeuwen, Old High German ginen, German gähnen "to yawn"), from PIE *ghai- "to yawn, gape" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic zijajo "to gape," Lithuanian žioju, 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.
yawn (n.)
"act of yawning," 1690s, from yawn (v.). Meaning "boring thing" is attested from 1889.
yawn 英文释义
1. an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom;
"he could not suppress a yawn"
"the yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop"
"he apologized for his ostinancy"
yawn 双语例句
1. She stretched her arms out and gave a great yawn.
她伸了个懒腰，打了个大哈欠。
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2. She makes no attempt to stifle a yawn.
她忍不住打了个哈欠。
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3. The debate was a mockery. A big yawn.
这场辩论实在可笑。简直是无聊透顶。
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4. Rosanna stifled a huge yawn.
罗莎娜想打个大哈欠，但强忍住了。
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5. The concert was a predictable yawn.
果不其然，那场音乐会很乏味。
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yawn 实用场景例句
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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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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(figurative)There's a yawning gap between rich and poor.
贫富之间有一条鸿沟。
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She stifled another yawn and tried hard to look interested.
她又忍住了哈欠，竭力显出感兴趣的样子。
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The meeting was one big yawn from start to finish.
这个会议自始至终都无聊透顶。
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She yawned, and stretched lazily...
她打了个哈欠，伸了个懒腰。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
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。
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The debate was a mockery. A big yawn...
这场辩论实在可笑。简直是无聊透顶。
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The concert was a predictable yawn.
果不其然，那场音乐会很乏味。
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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。
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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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
Harry stifled a yawn behind his hand.
哈利用手捂住了一个哈欠.
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All this media attention can tire a fellow out. Knut gives a big yawn.
媒体对于克纳特的关注也会让小家伙疲惫不堪. 瞧,它对着镜头打起了呵欠.
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Her yawn suggests that she is sleepy.
她打哈欠表示她很困了.
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It also believed that watching some one else yawn will cause you to yawn too.
此外,人们还认为看着别人打哈欠,自己也会打哈欠.
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It was an uninteresting conversation and I had to stifle a yawn.
那是一次枯燥无味的交谈,我不得不强忍住自己的呵欠.
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Poppy : Yawn! The boarding school treat again!
唷! 又拿寄宿学校威胁我!
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The yawn takes in air.
在哈欠发生在空气中.
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It is also believed that watching someone else yawn will cause you to yawn too.
此外,人们还认为看到别人打哈欠,自己也会开始打哈欠.
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He yawn me good night.
他打呵欠跟我说了一声“晚安”.
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She suppressed a yawn.
她想打呵欠却忍住了.
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The meeting was one big yawn from start to finish.
那会议自始至终十分无聊.
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Do you ever wonder why you yawn?
你曾经想过你为什么打哈欠 吗 ?
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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.
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Then with a yawn, she headed upstairs to the bedroom.
