yawn
英 [jɔːn]
美 [jɔn]
- n. 哈欠；裂口
- vi. 打嗬欠；裂開
- vt. 張開；打著嗬欠說
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 吹欠來自PIE*ghai,張嘴，打嗬欠，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 gähnen, 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 gähnen "to yawn"), from PIE *ghai- "to yawn, gape" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic zijajo "to gape," Lithuanian žioju, 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.
雙語例句
- 1. She stretched her arms out and gave a great yawn.
- 她伸了個懶腰，打了個大哈欠。
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- 2. She makes no attempt to stifle a yawn.
- 她忍不住打了個哈欠。
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- 3. The debate was a mockery. A big yawn.
- 這場辯論實在可笑。簡直是無聊透頂。
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- 4. Rosanna stifled a huge yawn.
- 羅莎娜想打個大哈欠，但強忍住了。
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- 5. The concert was a predictable yawn.
- 果不其然，那場音樂會很乏味。
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