| 单词 | yawn |
| 释义 | yawn (once / 552 pages) nv The reflex that makes you open your mouth wide, inhale, and then exhale is called a yawn. Even seeing photos of other people's yawns (or reading the word yawn) can make you yawn. We yawn when we're very bored or tired, or when our bodies need an influx of oxygen. Scientists aren't completely in agreement about all the reasons why we yawn, but the "contagious yawn" happens across all human societies and even in non-human animals like chimpanzees and dogs. Things can also yawn in a figurative way, when they're open wide. Yawn comes from gionian in Old English, "open the mouth wide." WORD FAMILYyawn: yawned, yawner, yawning, yawns+/yawner: yawners/yawning: yawningly, yawnings USAGE EXAMPLES“My mother was like one of those women who never stopped chattering,” the narrator says, “even while yawning.” New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) It stopped as quickly as it had started, and the sun came out again, mildly, as if yawning after a nap. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) What it means is that United are now a yawning 11 points behind Chelsea and any title-challenging hopes rather distant. The Guardian(Nov 27, 2016) 1n an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom he could not suppress a yawn Syn|Hypo|Hyper oscitance, oscitancy, yawning pandiculation yawning and stretching (as when first waking up) inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflex an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus 2v utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired The child yawned during the long performance Hyper breathe, respire, suspire, take a breath draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs 3v be wide open Syn|Hyper gape, yaw be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) |
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