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

• I am your yearning and your sweat.
  我很高兴你告诉我你对我的思念和渴望。
• My yearning is hanging on the new moon.
  我的思念就挂在那一钩新月上。
• 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。
• 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。
• Snow, and a piece snow falling, falling on my face, they dissolved into tears of yearning.
  下雪了，一片片雪花飘落，飘落在我的脸上，就化成了思念的泪水。
• He always had a yearning to be a schoolteacher.
  他一直渴望当老师。
• We are all yearning for the weather to change.
  我们大家都渴望天气有所变化。
• 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。
• And what they do not realize is that in their yearning they create the light.
  他们所没有意识到的是，在他们的渴望之中他们创造了光。
• 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。