gape: [13] Gape and the related gap [14] are of Scandinavian origin. English borrowed the verb from Old Norse gapa ‘open the mouth’, which survives in modern Scandinavian languages as Swedish gapa and Danish gabe. Old Norse gap ‘chasm’ (source of Swedish gap ‘mouth’ and Danish gab ‘opening, open mouth’) was originally taken over by English in the specific sense ‘hole in a wall or hedge’; the broader modern range of meanings began to emerge in the 16th century. => gap, yawn
gape (v.)
early 13c., from an unrecorded Old English word or else from Old Norse gapa "to open the mouth wide, gape" (see gap (n.)). Related: Gaped; gaping. As a noun, "act of opening the mouth," from 1530s.
实用例句
1. His secretary stopped taking notes to gape at me.
他的秘书停止了记录，目瞪口呆地望着我。
来自辞典例句
2. He looks down at the gape void at his feet.
他看著脚下张开的裂缝.
来自辞典例句
3. He must be a very strange - looking camel driver for people to gape like that.
