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

• Nobler thoughts and nobler longings were throbbing through my brain.
  更高尚的思想和渴望在头脑中冲荡。
• The desire to promote evidence of anomalous and paranormal events as genuine springs from deep human longings.
  人类内心深处渴望证明反常、灵异的事件。
• The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand a-tiptoe to peep at the heaven.
  1群树好像表达大地的愿望似的，跷脚站着，向天空窥望。
• Come and see that Jesus is more than enough for you and all your needs and longings.
  这样你就会明白，主耶稣是你的全部，是你的全部所需和全部渴慕。
• You have sung to me in my aloneness, and I of your longings have built a tower in the sky.
  你们在我的孤寂中为我歌唱，而我，在空中为你们的渴望建起一座楼阁。
• 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。
• Is is this spirit which made me quit the comfort of my previous life, to experience something more in concordance with my deep longings, first, on the road, and today, in China.
  这个想法也是我放弃以前舒适生活的原因，这使我深层的渴望和我的人生更加的协调，先是在路上旅行，而如今则是呆在中国。
• I know your longings and I have heard your frequent sighs.
  我认得你的愿望，我听得了你屡发的叹息。
• The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand atiptoe to peep at the heaven.
  群树如表示大地的愿望似的，踮起脚来向天空窥望。
• I yelled almost in despair, I'd had such idealistic longings for that girl in that past year and had conscience-stricken hours wondering if I should seduce her because she was so young and all.
  我几乎绝望地叫喊，在那去年我对这女郎是有着理想主义式的渴望及内疚的时刻（因她实在太年轻了，不知道应否诱惑她）。