yearnings

英 [ˈjɜːnɪŋz]

美 [ˈjɜrnɪŋz]

n.  渴望; 向往
yearning的复数

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。

双语例句

• With the elegant sentiment and variable models, the Chinese export porcelain gave the European society at that time a brand-new view of matters and a sort of yearnings for brighter lives.
  中国外销瓷以其精致优雅的情调和富有变化的造型，给予当时欧洲世界一个全新的看待事物的视角和对幸福生活的憧憬。
• And then I reached the end, and it turns out that Natasha's brooding artistic yearnings are symptoms of a mental illness for which pregnancy is the cure.
  读到最后我发现，娜塔莎（Natasha）徘徊不去的艺术渴望是一种精神疾病的症状，而怀孕能治这种病。
• Indeed, yearnings are positive feelings;
  的确，渴望是一种积极的情感；
• He knows when the yearnings of love are there.
  何处有爱的渴望，祂都知道。
• The church's spiritual life must have been polluted by my base yearnings.
  教会中的精神生活肯定被我那种低级的渴望污染了。
• Growing research suggests that odd food yearnings and food aversions may protect the fetus.
  越来越多的研究表明对一些奇怪食物的偏好和厌恶可能是出于保护胎儿的缘故。
• Special programs depicting Beijing's progress in its preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games and its residents 'enthusiastic participation and earnest yearnings will be filmed and shown on television.
  拍摄、播放反映北京筹办2008年奥运会进展情况和市民热情参与、喜盼奥运的专题节目；
• Trans students point out that they're doing exactly what these schools encourage: breaking gender barriers, fulfilling their deepest yearnings and forging ahead even when society tries to hold them back.
  跨性别学生们指出，他们做的正是这些学院所鼓励的：打破性别藩篱，实现内心深处的愿望，不顾社会羁绊而奋勇向前。
• Constantly identified with the harshness of moral yearnings, concern for the integrity of beings is painfully demonstrated.
  由于不断地认同与道德渴望的严酷，对于人类尊严的关心，令人痛苦地被证实。
• "The idea that we can control illness and death with our minds appeals to our deepest yearnings, but it just isn't so," she tells WebMD.
  我们能够控制疾病以及因心情不佳而死的想法反映了我们根深蒂固的愿望，但事实并非如此。