hankering

英 [ˈhæŋkərɪŋ]

美 [ˈhæŋkərɪŋ]

n.  (对或做某事的)强烈欲望
v.  渴望，渴求(某事物)
hanker的现在分词

现在分词：hankering　

GRE

BNC.35868 / COCA.33521

牛津词典

noun

• （对或做某事的）强烈欲望
  a strong desire
  1. a hankering for a wealthy lifestyle
     渴望过富裕生活

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 渴望;热望
  Ahankering forsomething is a desire or longing for it.
  1. From time to time we all get a hankering for something a little different...
     我们每个人偶尔都会渴望有点变化。
  2. Have you always had a hankering to be an actress?
     你是否一直渴望成为一名演员？

英英释义

noun

• a yearning for something or to do something
  Synonym:yen

双语例句

• Somewhere along the line in one damn incarnation or another, if you like, you not only had a hankering to be an actor or an actress, but to be a good one. You're stuck with it now.
  在线路的某个地方，在化身或其他东西里，如果你想要，你不仅能渴望成为一个演员，也能成为一个出色的演员，你想现在是被困住了。
• My husband has been hankering after a new car for a long time.
  我的老公一直渴望拥有一部新车。
• All the featured projects not only indicate people's hankering to fashion and new trend, but also supply people with the exact demand of dining environment.
  此书中介绍的设计作品不仅体现了人们对时尚和潮流的追求，同时也满足了他们对于就餐环境品质的向往。
• It is no doubt that hankering for the minimum economic cost or the maximum economic profit is an unfailing loyalty for any competitor.
  在市场经济的大搏杀中，追求经济成本最小化或经济利润最大化无疑是经济生活中亘古不变的话题，这势必要求人们尤其是决策者不得不面对大量客观存在的不确定性。
• Have you always had a hankering to be an actress?
  你是否一直渴望成为一名演员？
• Detachment, buddy, and only detachment, desirelessness, cessation from all hankering.
  超然，巴蒂，唯一的超然，无欲无求，所有的渴望欲望停止。
• Ever since then I've had a hankering to be a fruit grower.
  从那时起，我就渴望成为一个果农。
• He has been hankering to spend an evening talking with you.
  他一直渴望能找一天跟你谈一晚。
• And his strongly hankering for art.
  对诗歌艺术美的强烈追求。
• It has been said that romance is dead in the modern age but our hearts are still hankering for it, it seems.
  有人说现代早已没有真正的浪漫，但我们似乎依然拥有一颗追求浪漫的心。