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To gawp is to look at something for a long time, often with your mouth a little open, because you are surprised or cannot quite believe what you are seeing. It is informal, and it is especially British; American speakers more often say gawk or stare. There is a hint that the looking is not polite — you are staring as if the other person were a show. Parents tell children not to gawp. You can gawp at a crash, at a famous person, at a huge building. As a noun, a gawp is that same open-mouthed look, though the verb is far more common. Though actually, people stretch it a little: any long, empty stare can be called gawping, even when the mouth is not really open.
張著嘴傻看、瞪眼看(偏英式口語;美式較常說 gawk 或 stare)
組成A variation of gape (to open the mouth wide, often in surprise).
同家族的字
- gapegawp is a variation of gape
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gawpverb/ɡɔːp/
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To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk.
- “I have tickets for the train to New York tonight. Hurry up, Molly! Don’t stand there gawping.”
- The lady looked around to see that there were hundreds of sets of eyes staring back at her. Even the screaming toddlers had momentarily stopped screaming and were gawping.
gawpnoun/ɡɔːp/
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A stupefied or amazed stare.
- Come in for a gawp at the sweets and pastries that run three rows deep at this rustically contemporary (or contemporarily rustic) cake shop.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。