longings

英 [ˈlɒŋɪŋz]

美 [ˈlɔŋɪŋz]

n.  (对…的)渴望，热望
longing的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 渴望；热望；憧憬
  If you feellongingor alonging forsomething, you have a rather sad feeling because you want it very much.
  1. He felt a longing for the familiar...
     他渴望找到知交。
  2. Imelda spoke of her longing to return home...
     伊美尔达说她期望能够回家。
  3. I was overwhelmed with longing for those innocent days of early childhood.
     我内心充满着对纯真的童年时光的怀念。

双语例句

• Draw upon your deepest longings to pull together an idyllic concept of yourself with all the detail possible.
  借鉴你们那最深切的渴望，将你们自己田园诗般的概念聚在一起，并且细节尽可能详尽。
• Appetite is the keenness of living; it is one of the senses that tells you that you are still curious to exist, that you stillhave an edge on your longings and want to bite into the world and taste its multitudinous flavours and juices.
  食欲是对生存的强烈渴望；这一咸官告诉你，你对生存仍有好奇心，你和欲望和期待仍很旺盛，依然希望咀嚼这大千世界，品尝它五花八门的风味和甜汁儿。
• Nobler thoughts and nobler longings were throbbing through my brain.
  更高尚的思想和渴望在头脑中冲荡。
• He may have been in the father's house but he never shared in the longings of the father's heart over the younger son.
  他虽然一直住在父的家中，却从没有明白父亲的心，没有分担父亲挂念弟弟的痛苦。
• Most passionate people who follow their life longings are happy and fulfilled individuals.
  大部分追寻自己生活梦想的热情的人都快乐满足。
• The oceangoing steamers... roused in him wild and painful longings
  出海的汽船.在他心中激起了狂热且痛苦的渴望
• E has lived in a vacuum for eighteen years, cloyed by the representative and unique longings of any youth.
  他离群独处生活了18年，腻味了年轻人那一套典型而独特的向往和追求。
• I told him about my longings to look for birds in my surroundings, which is not to be a religious Buddhist, but for a reflection on my work for the urban planning, architecture and landscape design.
  虽然并非虔诚的佛教徒，但有一些同感，我喜欢寻找在我周围的鸟类，也来反思在城市规划，建筑设计和景观设计方面的工作。
• The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand a-tiptoe to peep at the heaven.
  1群树好像表达大地的愿望似的，跷脚站着，向天空窥望。
• I yelled almost in despair, I'd had such idealistic longings for that girl in that past year and had conscience-stricken hours wondering if I should seduce her because she was so young and all.
  我几乎绝望地叫喊，在那去年我对这女郎是有着理想主义式的渴望及内疚的时刻（因她实在太年轻了，不知道应否诱惑她）。