Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense yawns, present participle yawning, past tense, past participle yawned
1VERB 打哈欠 If you yawn, 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. 打哈欠
She yawned, and stretched lazily. [VERB]
她打了个哈欠,伸了个懒腰。
They looked bored and yawned at the speeches. [VERB]
他们看起来已经厌倦了这些演讲,直打哈欠。
Yawn is also a noun.
Rosanna stifled a huge yawn.
罗莎娜想打个大哈欠,但强忍住了。
2N-SING 乏味的事物;枯燥的事物 If you describe something such as a book or a film as a yawn, you think it is very boring 乏味的事物;枯燥的事物 [informal]
The debate was a mockery. A big yawn.
这场辩论实在可笑。简直是无聊透顶。
The concert was a predictable yawn.
果不其然,那场音乐会很乏味。
3VERB (裂隙或缺口)裂开,豁开 A gap or an opening that yawns is large and wide, and often frightening. (裂隙或缺口)裂开,豁开 [literary]
The gulf between them yawned wider than ever. [VERB]
他们之间的隔阂比以往任何时候都要深。
Liddie's doorway yawned blackly open at the end of the hall. [VERB adj.ive]
ADJECTIVE | VERB + YAWN | YAWN + VERB | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤big, deep, huge大哈欠;深深的哈欠▸➤loud, noisy大聲的哈欠▸➤stifled忍住的哈欠➤collective (figurative) 集體不感興趣◇The speech was greeted with a collective yawn from the press gallery.記者席上的人對這次演講全都不感興趣。VERB + YAWN➤fight back, hold back, stifle, suppress忍住/控制/強忍/抑制哈欠◇He struggled to stifle a yawn.他努力忍住哈欠。➤give, let out打哈欠◇The little boy gave a huge yawn.小男孩打了一個大哈欠。➤conceal遮掩哈欠◇He tried to conceal his yawn behind his hand.他試圖用手捂住嘴打哈欠。YAWN + VERB➤escape哈欠沒忍住◇A loud yawn escaped my lips.我沒能忍住打了一個大哈欠。PREPOSITION➤with a yawn打着哈欠yawn
verb
ADVERB | VERB + YAWN | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADVERB➤hugely, widely哈欠打得極大;張大嘴打哈欠◇He sat up and yawned hugely.他坐起來,打了一個大哈欠。➤loudly大聲打哈欠VERB + YAWN➤make sb使某人打哈欠▸➤hear sb聽見某人打哈欠PREPOSITION➤at朝⋯打哈欠◇He got fed up with people yawning at him when he talked about his job.他煩透了那些聽到他談論起自己的工作就朝他打哈欠的人。PHRASES➤can't stop yawning忍不住打哈欠◇I was so tired I couldn't stop yawning.我太累了,忍不住打起了哈欠。