yearns

英 [jɜːnz]

美 [jɜːrnz]

v.  渴望; 渴求
yearn的第三人称单数

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 nevertheless intends to open more Cherish Yearns.
  不过，他还是计划建立更多的亲和源社区。
• Mr Hu, however, probably yearns for the good old days.
  但胡大概也怀念美好的旧时光吧。
• Of course. It's the place where every music lover yearns for most.
  当然，那是每个音乐爱好者最向往的地方。
• A part of us yearns, hopes, for something better.
  我们对更好的事物颇有几分追求，颇抱几分希望。
• What I dread is to get into a rut. One yearns for freshness of thought and ideas.
  我害怕的就是墨守成规。人总是向往新思想和新观念的。
• Just as every American boy yearns to be a football quarter-back, so girls yearn to head the cheerleading squad, amidst vicious real-life rivalry.
  正像每个美国男孩儿都想成为美式足球场上的四分卫一样，每个女孩儿也都渴望在怀有恶意的真实竞争中，成为啦啦队队长。
• I overhear that the hearty man heartily yearns for my harness in the barn.
  我无意中听说那个热忱的人十分向往我的牲口棚中的马具。
• Every child has a soul which yearns, and carries a longing on his lap and goes to sleep with it, hoping to find that his dream come true when he wakes up with the morn.
  每个小孩子都有一颗思慕的和切望的灵魂，怀着一种热望去睡觉，希望在早晨醒转时发现他的梦想已成为事实。
• But I would like this life which moves and yearns in me, to be able itself to attain to comeliness, though but in transitory performance.
  我还是希望，渴望并变化着的我的生命能够籍自身而美丽，即使只能转瞬即逝。
• The Queen added: The world yearns for examples of positive transformation and of people overcoming differences.
  女王接着说道：全世界都期盼着有一个好的结果，与克服了困难的人们作为榜样。