gawp

• vi. 直瞪瞪地注视
• n. 呆人；笨蛋

来自gape的拼写变体。

gawp (n.)

"fool, simpleton," 1825, perhaps from gawp (v.) "to yawn, gape" (as in astonishment), which is attested from 1680s, a dialectal survival of galp (c. 1300), which is related to yelp or gape and perhaps confused with or influenced by gawk.

1. Thorpe could only stand and gawp.

索普只是站着傻看。

来自柯林斯例句

2. At weekends the roads are jammed with holidaymakers coming to gawp at the parade.

周末的时候，公路上便挤满了前来观看游行的度假游客。

来自柯林斯例句

3. It commemorates a trek more gruelling than the tourists who gawp at it can imagine.

它是为了纪念一次艰苦的跋涉,其艰难程度超出了那些看到这座雕像的人的想象.

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