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"Yawning" is the -ing form of "yawn" - opening your mouth wide and breathing in deeply, usually when you're tired or bored, often without meaning to do it at all. It can spread easily too - seeing someone else yawn often makes you yawn too. "Yawning" is also used to describe something that looks like a huge, wide-open gap or space, like "a yawning gap" between rich and poor, or "a yawning canyon" - meaning something wide and almost in size.
打呵欠；（比喻）巨大張開的（如 a yawning gap）
組成"Yawn" (to open the mouth wide from tiredness) + "-ing".
原始詞典資料4 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。
yawningnoun/ˈjɔːnɪŋ/
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The action of the verb yawn.
- Her vivacity appeared as graceful as it was buoyant; her gay spirit seemed the musical overflowings of youth and happiness; her eye and cheek brightened together; and her sweet glad laugh was as catching as yawning.
yawningadj/ˈjɔːnɪŋ/
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That yawns or yawn.
- yawning commuters
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Wide open.
- a yawning chasm; the shark's yawning jaws
- That experience really taught me something. That deep down inside, I am broken, and that I'm using work to plaster over some yawning gap within myself.
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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。