yearning

英 [ˈjɜːnɪŋ]

美 [ˈjɜːrnɪŋ]

n.  渴望; 向往
v.  渴望; 渴求
yearn的现在分词

现在分词：yearning　复数：yearnings　

BNC.15023 / COCA.12302

牛津词典

noun

• 渴望；向往
  a strong and emotional desire
  1. a yearning for a quiet life
     对宁静生活的向往
  2. She had no great yearning to go back.
     她并不十分想回去。

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 渴望;强烈愿望;向往
  Ayearningfor something is a very strong desire for it.
  1. He spoke of his yearning for another child...
     他说起了自己想再要一个孩子的强烈愿望。
  2. He always had a yearning to be a schoolteacher.
     他一直渴望当老师。

英英释义

noun

• prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
  Synonym:longinghungriness

双语例句

• They will hear my voice, and with the same sense of yearning for their hopes.
  会让他们听到我的心声，和发自内心的对他们的殷殷思念。
• She is a good destination that it was the pursuit of her life and yearning.
  是它的好归宿，认为那是它一生的追求和向往，一生最美的家。
• Under the influence of my father, I have always been filled with infinite yearning for Germany.
  由于受到父亲的影响，我对德国充满了无限的向往。
• But they were filled with longing and desire, a yearning for something just out of reach.
  但是小说里也充满了憧憬和希望，一种对于力不能及的事物的渴望。
• People's yearning for a good and beautiful life is the goal for us to strive for.
  人民对美好生活的向往，就是我们的奋斗目标。
• Discarding this, we will discard, also, the eternal yearning of the unsatisfied right armpit.
  丢弃这个，我们也将丢弃得不到满足的右腋窝的无休止的渴望。
• You have been long gone, leaving behind drizzling melancholy and thickening yearning in me.
  你远去了，留给我的是密密细雨般的惆怅，还有那浓浓的思念。
• Wolves have a very simple attitude, which is their persistent yearning for successes.
  狼的态度很单纯，那就是对成功坚定不移地向往。
• Not just ready to, I would answer, but yearning to.
  我得说，不仅仅是准备好了，而且对此充满渴望。
• Freedom, my yearning and pursues! For my full time of life!
  自由，我的向往和追求！用一生的时光去争取！