yawn
英 [j??n]
美 [j?n]
- n. 哈欠；裂口
- vi. 打呵欠；裂開
- vt. 張開；打著呵欠說(shuō)
助記提示
1. PIE base *ghai- / *ghi- "yawn, gape" => chasm (from Greek khaskein / khainein "yawn, gape").
2. PIE base *ghai- / *ghi- "yawn, gape" => hiatus (from Latin hiare "yawn, gape").
3. PIE base *ghai- / *ghi- "yawn, gape" => gap, gape, yawn.
中文詞源
yawn 吹欠來(lái)自PIE*ghai,張嘴，打呵欠，詞源同gas,chaos,gape.
英文詞源
- yawn
- yawn: [OE] Yawn goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *ghei-, *ghi-, which also produced Greek kháskein ‘gape’ (a close relative of English chasm [17]) and Latin hiāre ‘gape, yawn’ (source of English hiatus [16]). The base passed into prehistoric Germanic as *gai-, *gi-, whose surviving descendants are German g?hnen, Dutch geeuwen, and English yawn. English gap and gape probably come from an extension of the same Indo-European base.
=> chasm, gap, gape, hiatus - yawn (v.)
- c. 1300, yenen, yonen, from Old English ginian, gionian "open the mouth wide, yawn, gape," from Proto-Germanic *gin- (cognates: Old Norse gina "to yawn," Dutch geeuwen, Old High German ginen, German g?hnen "to yawn"), from PIE *ghai- "to yawn, gape" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic zijajo "to gape," Lithuanian ?ioju, Czech zivati "to yawn," Greek khainein, Latin hiare "to yawn, gape," Sanskrit vijihite "to gape, be ajar"). Modern spelling is from 16c. Related: Yawned; yawning.
- yawn (n.)
- "act of yawning," 1690s, from yawn (v.). Meaning "boring thing" is attested from 1889.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. She stretched her arms out and gave a great yawn.
- 她伸了個(gè)懶腰，打了個(gè)大哈欠。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. She makes no attempt to stifle a yawn.
- 她忍不住打了個(gè)哈欠。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. The debate was a mockery. A big yawn.
- 這場(chǎng)辯論實(shí)在可笑。簡(jiǎn)直是無(wú)聊透頂。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. Rosanna stifled a huge yawn.
- 羅莎娜想打個(gè)大哈欠，但強(qiáng)忍住了。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 5. The concert was a predictable yawn.
- 果不其然，那場(chǎng)音樂(lè)會(huì)很乏味。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句