yawn

B2 CET-6 高中 FREQ #19605 ★☆☆☆☆

n. 哈欠 vi. 打哈欠, 裂开 vt. 打着哈欠说

发音

UK /jɔːn/
其它 /jɑn/
US /jɔn/
AU /joːn/

词形变化

yawns 复数 yawns yawned yawnest yawneth yawning yawns 三单 yawning 现在分词 yawned 过去式 yawned 过去分词

别名

jawn

教材释义与例句

名词

哈欠；裂口

Yawn is also a noun

动词

打哈欠；裂开

to open your mouth wide and breathe in deeply because you are tired or bored

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored.

    哈欠

    呵欠

  2. 2.

    A particularly boring event.

    非正式

    The slideshow we sat through was such a yawn. I was glad when it finished.

v. B2
  1. 1.

    To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.

    打哈欠

    打呵欠

    打阿老

    打喊露

    擘嘴

    哈唏

    喝颔

    擘哈

    不及物

    I could see my students yawning, so I knew the lesson was boring them.

  2. 2.

    To say while yawning.

  3. 3.

    To present a wide opening; gape.

    The canyon yawns as it has done for millions of years, and we stand looking, dumbstruck.

    Death yawned before us, and I hit the brakes.

  4. 4.

    To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.

    废旧
  5. 5.

    To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning.

    废旧

    to yawn for fat livings

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

yawning oscitance oscitancy

上位词 3

reflex reflex response unconditioned reflex

下位词 1

pandiculation
动词

同义词 2

yaw gape

上位词 5

open breathe respire suspire take a breath

相关短语

multicolour yawn Technicolor yawn technicolour yawn

词源

Partly from Middle English yanen, yonen, yenen (“to yawn”), from Old English ġeonian, ġinian (“to yawn, gape”), from Proto-West Germanic *ginōn, from Proto-Germanic *ginōną (“to yawn”); and partly from Middle English gonen (“to gape, yawn”), from Old English gānian (“to yawn, gape”), from Proto-West Germanic *gainōn, from Proto-Germanic *gainōną (“to yawn, gape”); both from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰi-, *ǵʰeyh₁- (“to yawn, gape”). Cognate with North Frisian jåne (“to yawn”), Saterland Frisian jaanje, joanje (“to yawn”), Middle Dutch genen, ghenen (“to yawn”), German Low German jahnen (“to yawn”), German gähnen (“to yawn, gape”), dialectal Swedish gana (“to gape, gawk”), dialectal Norwegian gina (“to gape”). Compare also Old Church Slavonic зѣѭ (zějǫ) (Russian зи́нуть (zínutʹ), зия́ть (zijátʹ)), Greek χαίνω (khaínō)), Latin hiō, Tocharian A śew, Tocharian B kāyā, Lithuanian žioti, Sanskrit जेह् (jeh)

来源：wiktionary