| 词汇 | gape |
| 语种 | 英语、汉语、英汉翻译、汉英翻译 |
| 释义 | gape verb[ I ] uk /ɡeɪp/ us /ɡeɪp/ gapeverb[I] (LOOK)to look in great surprise at someone or something, especially with an open mouth: 目瞪口呆地看，瞠目结舌地注视 gape atThey stood gaping at the pig in the kitchen.他们站在那里目瞪口呆地看着厨房里的那头猪。 Using the eyes accommodate accommodation all eyes are on someone/somethingidiom astigmatic beholder cast corner discern fix glare penetrating perceive re-see re-sight rest on someone/something resurvey rubbernecking sighting spot tab gapeverb[I] (OPEN)to be or become wide open: 张开;裂开 Peter's jacket gaped at the seams.彼得的夹克衫开了线，裂了一个口子。 Unfastening and opening break something open breaker broach decongestion let/set something looseidiom loose shut (someone) up steam tease tease something out the earth/ground/floor opensidiom unbolted unbuckle unfold unknot unlace unlock unlockable unpick unzip gape | American Dictionarygape verb[ I ] us/ɡeɪp/ to look in great surprise at someone or something, esp. with an open mouth: We all stood gaping at the bear in our backyard. Examples of gapegape The oven pipe gapes open and will not shut. Once squab start thrusting at grain, gapes occur. One possibility is that loss of the fleshy cheek facilitated a wider gape. Additionally, the body positioning, thrust, and gape components must all be coordinated properly for a peck to result in the successful ingestion of food. Why haven't host nervous systems evolved resistance to the red gape drug? The effect of genes on colour and shape of gape is itself indirect. Another possibility is that a wider gape permitted bulk ingestion of greater quantities of vegetation per mouthful and/or ingestion of larger individual food items. Whatever it is about the cuckoo's gape that acts like a drug on the host's nervous system, it must have originated as a genetic mutation. Pecks that have an accompanying gape vary greatly and bear very little resemblance to those of the adult. The lower jaw of these fish is loosely slung to the brain case so that they had a very wide" gape". The gape of the mouth is strongly oblique. Mandible width was measured as the distance between the outer edges of the mandibles at their tips when spread to maximum gape. Suddenly, out of the corner of its eye, it sees the red super-gape of a young cuckoo, in the nest of a bird of some quite different species. Lastly, the movement from the multiple and variable gape forms early in ontogeny to the stereotyped adult form is consistent with the hypothesis of operant learning. Most bivalves with siphons develop a gape at one end of the valves, so that they do not close entirely in the region from which the siphons protrude. See all examples of gape 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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