yearned

英 [jɜːnd]

美 [jɜːrnd]

v.  渴望; 渴求
yearn的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 渴望;渴求;向往
  If someoneyearns forsomething that they are unlikely to get, they want it very much.
  1. He yearned for freedom...
     他渴望自由。
  2. I yearned to be a movie actor.
     我曾渴望成为一名电影演员。

双语例句

• He yearned for his home and family.
  他渴望回家与家人相聚。
• He yearned for romance and beauty and love.
  他向往着浪漫，美丽和爱情。
• For everybody introduction, this is a place which I most yearned for, is the swan castle, although did not know, this world does have, a such place, but, he depends on the old stock my dream.
  给大家介绍，这是我最向往的地方，是天鹅城堡，虽然不知道，这个世界到底有没有，这样的一个地方，但是，他还是依旧存着我的梦。
• He yearned for freedom
  他渴望自由。
• I yearned for the feeling of being a winner again.
  我渴望再次成为胜利者的感觉。
• He yearned to ask her to marry him.
  他强烈希望要她嫁给他。
• All at once I pictured my own father, patiently enduring my nightly accordion practice sessions though he must have yearned for peace and quiet after his long days at the pizza factory.
  突然，我想起了我的父亲。虽然他在比萨厂呆了一整天后一定非常渴望清静，但还是耐心地忍受着我每天晚上练习手风琴的那段时间。
• He came to love her and hoped to marry her, and thus acquire the wealth and social position for which he yearned.
  结果，他爱上了她并想和她结婚，这样一来，他就可以得到梦寐以求的财富和社会地位。
• He yearned for wearing a set of descent vesture in front of female schoolmates;
  他渴望穿一身体面的衣裳站在女同学的面前；
• He, like others, yearned for the enjoyment of whatever he saw enjoyable.
  他象别人那样，渴望欣赏不论什么他看到的可以欣赏的东西。