Gape

(noun.) a stare of amazement (usually with the mouth open).

(noun.) an expression of openmouthed astonishment.

(verb.) be wide open; 'the deep gaping canyon'.

编辑:维尔玛

• He finds that nothing agrees with him so well as to make little gyrations on one leg of his stool, and stab his desk, and gape. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It's a dreadful thing to gape, but I must do something. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Failing this, absurdity and atheism gape behind him. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Colonel Lysander Stark sprang out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch which gaped in front of us. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Sleeping on the brink of sin, Tophet gaped to take us in; Mercy to our rescue flew, Broke the snare, and brought us through. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• So they gaped at it and let it run wild, called it names, and threw stones at it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Versailles, under a score of names, is starred in every volume of B?deker, and the tourist gapes in their palaces. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Round two sides of it, the sides nearest to the interior of the church, ran heavy wooden presses, worm-eaten and gaping with age. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The gaping wound of my wrongs, too, was now quite healed; and the flame of resentment extinguished. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It plained of its gaping wounds, its inward bleeding, its riven chords. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Their long, massive necks upreared raised their great, gaping mouths high above our heads. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Let us not think too lightly of the humble five-cent theatre with its gaping crowd following with breathless interest the vicissitudes of the beautiful heroine. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• They swarmed out of mud bee-hives; out of hovels of the dry-goods box pattern; out of gaping caves under shelving rocks; out of crevices in the earth. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

编辑:莎蒂