| 词汇 | example_english_yawn |
| 释义 | Examples of yawnThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. There are enough yawning gaps between our pretensions to social equality, equality before the law, freedom of all kinds, to motivate a million comedies. I have been watching them very carefully, and they have been yawning their heads off. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The gap in our overseas trade yawns dangerously. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 His frame of mind must have been one of agonised horror at the gulf yawning before him. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I fancy that there have been one or two yawns this evening. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Symptoms of liver damage are yawning, weight loss, poor condition, sunburn and diarrhoea. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When is there a yawning gap and when is there not a yawning gap? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is still a yawning gap as regards finance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Given the short amount of time that we have, the more he yawns, the longer this will take. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There must be a dampening mechanism to reduce that yawning gap. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By so doing we are better informed, and sometimes we can build abridge where otherwise there would be merely a yawning vacuum or abyss. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He can see the precipice yawning before him, and he unhesitatingly marches towards it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have claimed that yawning trade deficits, a scenario all too familiar from past attempts at demand management, will return to haunt us. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are yawning their way through, and the by-elections show that they are shuffling along on borrowed time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is now a yawning gap that is not being adequately filled by the building societies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Quite frankly, he gave us a vision of the future, and it yawns. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How can we fill that yawning gap, as we must do before 1952? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not blame him for yawning after such a long, weary series of nonsensical speeches. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Then, in time, they have looked at the pit yawning at their feet and have stepped back and reached agreement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On the one hand, we face a nightmare that yawns ahead. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is clearly a yawning gap in the law. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Once the legal heavyweights applied their minds, it was revealed yet again that there are not manholes but yawning opencast gaps of enormous proportions in what we are discussing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is indeed a yawning gap. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Inevitably, the already yawning gap between social services and health services, so apparent in community care, will become a chasm as decision-making structures become ever more distant from one another. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is required is urgent remedial action to close that yawning gap in our air defences and those of our allies, which critically affects all the services. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The facts of the position have been stated so often that there is no need to repeat them, except to say that the import—export gap yawns. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I meant, this yawning financial gap. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is still a yawning gap of about £600 million in our balance of payments, and the remnants of our gold reserves are leaving the country at an alarming rate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I call it the yawning canyon. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There must be another yawning gap there. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Hiccups, yawns, and sneezes are other breath-related phenomena. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. After the vacuous traveller, an idle lord appears, yawning with the pain of sitting on an easy chair. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The rumbling sound can also be heard when the neck or jaw muscles are highly tensed as when yawning deeply. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The album's central cover image is that of a gorilla yawning, suggesting the homonymous pun with the album's title, oral gorilla. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Exorcists believe that yawning can indicate that a demon or possessive spirit is leaving its human host during the course of an exorcism. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A group of these animals was shown a video of other conspecifics yawning; both species yawned as well. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Individuals in opioid withdrawal exhibit a greatly increased frequency of yawning. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Covering the mouth when yawning may have been a way to prevent such transmission. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Various methods of ear clearing such as yawning, swallowing, or chewing gum, may be used intentionally to open the tube and equalize pressures. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Awful dialogues, in the guise of comedy only tests your patience further as you are busy stifling yawns. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Superstitions regarding the act of yawning may have arisen from concerns over public health. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. However, neither providing more oxygen nor reducing carbon dioxide in air decreased yawning. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Yawning may in fact reduce oxygen intake compared to normal respiration. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Yawning most often occurs in adults immediately before and after sleep, during tedious activities and as a result of its infectious quality. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A lion is sent out into the arena first, but it just yawns and lies down. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Yawning is a reflex that tends to disrupt the normal breathing rhythm and is believed to be contagious as well. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Conversely, a greater presence in the brain of opioid neurotransmitters such as endorphins reduces the frequency of yawning. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. To look at the issue in terms of a possible evolutionary advantage, yawning might be a herd instinct. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In fact, the autistic children actually yawned less during the videos of yawning than during the control videos. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. While the seal yawns, the teacher observes and describes its mouth. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Little red chicken loves the idea and climbs into bed, yawning and tired. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The blacksmith, yawning, complained of the late hour and that his forge was shut down and cold. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Large males will often confront them by flashing their eyelids, showing their teeth by yawning, making gestures, and chasing after the intruder/predator. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A newly dug grave yawns out of the snow in the foreground, near which several crosses can be faintly discerned. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The void surrounding us then suddenly yawns on every side. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The term yawny voice is appropriate to compare this voice quality to the physiological act of yawning. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Danjr, the ninth, was the bridge that spanned the sudden gulf which yawned between the traditional past and the uncertain and changing modern world. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Staring, eyebrow raising, yawning, and molar grinding are used to threaten other baboons. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Another speculated reason for yawning is the desire to stretch one's muscles. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Yawning may be an offshoot of the same imitative impulse. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Related individuals (r0.25) showed the greatest contagion, in terms of both occurrence of yawning and frequency of yawns. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Another worker yawns, and is also dropped through a trapdoor under his desk and replaced by a robot. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. According to custom, if one is indeed afflicted with the evil eye, both victim and healer then start yawning profusely. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Such cathartic discharge includes crying, warm perspiration, trembling, yawning, laughing and relaxed, non-repetitive talking. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. You can watch it on time, with a few yawns at regular intervals. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His daughter must do the same for whoever yawned. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He was often seen yawning loudly and sleeping in court. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Paralanguage refers to how something is said, rather than the content of what is saide.g., rate of speech, tone and inflection of voice, other noises, laughing, yawning, and silence. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. After running head-first into a fire hydrant, the man yawns, returns to his bed (which, from where he is standing, is on the wall), and goes to sleep. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A critical view of the yawn-sigh as a voice therapy technique. As he yawned again and again, he seemed to be trying to swallow the whole sky with his mouth, which was as deep as a cave. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. I feel all gassy inside from yawning. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Adventure gamers with a taste for methodical puzzle-solving could appreciate it, whereas everybody else will be too busy stifling yawns to feel any chills running down their spines. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Signs include weight loss, weakness, sleepiness, yawning, incoordination, yellowish discoloration to mucous membranes (icterus), neurologic problems secondary to liver failure (aimless walking, chewing motions, head pressing). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. If the gulf yawns in spite of licensing, then if we withdraw the power of licensing, surely the gulf will yawn still wider. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I caught him in the middle of a yawn. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We may smile, we may even yawn, but we must not frown. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead, this great debate is ending with a yawn. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, it brought a rather long yawn, but behind the yawn there was real anger. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Well, so what, most might reply with a yawn? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In that way alone can they hope to avoid the pitfalls which yawn before them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Elections are a bit of a yawn after a while, are they not? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Both management and labour are as keen as each other to find protected positions, from which they can stretch out, yawn and even go to sleep. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I feel that they stand midway between the independent schools and the maintained schools and that they bridge a gulf fairly successfully which otherwise would yawn rather menacingly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A widespread custom of these women was to yawn repeatedly during healing rituals. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Strangers and acquaintances showed a longer delay in the yawn response (latency) compared to friends and kin. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A good book, therefore, but one which does not fully bridge the yawning gap between social theorising and investigative research on 'risk society'. His eyes and nose began to run, he yawned, he suffered abdominal pains and lost his appetite. The members yawned lazily and stretched their legs. The chasm between nature and culture yawned wider than ever before, and attempts to bridge that chasm were policed more severely than ever before. There is a simple explanation for this yawning gap between image and actuality. The continent has slipped so far behind other developing regions in terms of development indicators that the yawning gap sometimes seems to defy rational explanation. Same as always - the abyss yawning its head off at your feet, while you struggle with the monster that is trying to push you in. No one complains or even yawns. The yawn also suggests that their journey has lost its excitement. The bulk of it, though, is just standard major record company dross which is greeted with a yawn and propelled directly into the nearest rubbish bin. We are very concerned at the role which this process might play in accentuating - even exacerbating - yawning social chasms which are already so marked and so serious. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The heart of my argument is that that yawning inequality harms everybody, not just those at the bottom of the scale. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were listless, ill-attentive and yawning their way through the morning's work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They experienced what we have experienced all along—the yawning gap between rhetoric and practice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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