yawn

yawn
verb
  1. [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。
noun
  1. 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。
派生
yawningly
adverb
语源
  1. 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
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