| 单词 | yawn |
| 释义 | yawn I. intransitive verb 1. a. < this yawning fissure may plunge 50 feet or more — G.W.Long > < the vast gap that yawned between the gentleman officer and the common seaman — Mary A. Hamilton > b. < stood staring at the floor, as if gazing into a pit which had yawned suddenly before his eyes — Marcia Davenport > 2. a. < close the book, yawn, and go to bed > < both hens and turkeys yawn, especially at roosting time — W.P.Blount > b. archaic < methinks it should be now a great eclipse … and that the affrighted globe should yawn at alteration — Shakespeare > transitive verb 1. archaic a. < stood beside the murderer's bed, and yawned her ghastly wound — Robert Southey > b. 2. a. < yawn a reply > b. < yawned my way through … French — Malcolm Cowley > < have long been laughed or yawned out of court — A.L.Guérard > II. 1. < struck lightly and … lay still, staring up at an oblong yawn that closed with a clattering vibration of loose planks — William Faulkner > < leaning … over the yawn of a grave to scatter his handful of earth — Elizabeth Bowen > 2. a. < a dull speech greeted with yawns > < the telltale yawn of the addict who needs a shot — Time > b. < their zeal was quickly blunted by the yawn of habit around them — Bruce Marshall > |
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