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

• Old longings nomadic leap, chafing at customs chain again from its brumal sleep wakens the ferine strain.
  长久以来的渴望不时闪动，因为世俗的羁绊而怒火中烧，将再次从冬眠中唤醒那野生的天性。
• 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。
• 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。
• Life was bearable, without happiness, without grief. So, what you can't wave away is those expectations, secrets, longings, joys and sorrows, as well as ups and downs.
  这种生活也还是可以过下去的，没有欢喜，也没有悲哀。所以，你挥之不去，那时的期盼，秘密，憧憬，悲与喜，真真切切的起落。
• I don't forget my own longings which heartily resisted the pronouncement of Justice Holmes, which I read as an undergraduate, that certainty generally is illusion and repose is not our destiny.
  我并没有忘记自己曾经有过的渴望，当时我还是一个本科学生，一面阅读着霍尔姆斯大法官的书，一面拼命抵制着他的宣教。
• 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。
• 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
• Rain, gently drop dozen countless for your notes, such as pleading, beg, love and longings!
  雨，轻轻地滴打着无数音符，如对你的倾诉、叩求、热爱和憧憬！
• 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。
• 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。