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

• 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。
• 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。
• Thou canst not think, said the minister, glancing aside at Hester Prynne, how my heart dreads this interview, and yearns for it!
  你难以想象，牧师说着，偏过头来瞥了一眼海丝特白兰，我又害怕这次见面，又盼着这次见面的那种心理！
• 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。
• One of the most powerful ways to do this is through human touch, for a loving, comforting touch allows us to access the part of ourselves that yearns for a sense of oneness with the world around us.
  最最突出的例子就是通过肢体的接触，通过一种充满爱的，让人舒服的肤慰让我们接触到自己那个渴望和世界融为一体的部分。
• 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。
• Every man yearns for sympathy in sorrow.
  每个遇到不幸的人都渴望得到同情。
• 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。
• Offscreen, he admits that he likes kids very much himself, he yearns for marriage.
  戏外的他坦言自己很喜欢小孩，也渴望婚姻。
• Mr Hu, however, probably yearns for the good old days.
  但胡大概也怀念美好的旧时光吧。