单词 | gape |
释义 | gapeWord family noungapergapinggapeseedadverbgapinglyverbgape gape /ɡeɪp/ verb [intransitiveI] 1 LOOK ATto look at something for a long time, especially with your mouth open, because you are very surprised or shocked 瞠目结舌[目瞪口呆]地注视 SYN stare gape at ► see thesaurus at look What are all these people gaping at? 这些人目不转睛地都在看什么呀? 2 (also gape open)OPEN to open widely or be wide open 大开;洞开;敞开 Dan stood at the door, his shirt gaping open. 丹敞着衬衫站在门口。 Examples from the Corpus gape• You may have to squeeze the edges of the wound together if the sides are gaping.• For a moment Rex and I gaped, and then Rex dived into the cabin to fetch his camera.• People stopped to gape as she walked down the street in a see-through mini-dress.• She stood there gaping at me, too shocked to speak.• I do not care much now about the way the women gape at me when I walk around in the village center.• I don't know why we're standing here for all these fools to gape at.• I could only gape in astonishment as I saw the man take the bottle from the shelf and put it under his coat.• A small boy pressed his face against the window and gaped in awe.• The wound on his neck gaped open 2 inches.• The mouth of the pouch gaped open.• But suddenly he was at the door, swaying slightly, his pyjama jacket gaping open. (1200-1300) Old Norse gapa |
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