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 like the yearning for a bright sunflower quality.
  我喜欢葵花的向往光明的品质。
• When looking up at the starry sky, we are full of longing and yearning for the vast universe.
  在仰望星空的时候，对茫茫宇宙充满了无限的憧憬和向往。
• Yearning for a long enrapture you yesterday and the longing for a beautiful future.
  思念是对你昨日悠长的沉缅和对未来美好的向往。
• Eco-Eden is people yearning for beautiful to nature.
  生态乐园是人们对大自然的美好向往。
• 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。
• Exhibiting a lover's yearning.
  相思的表现出一个情人的思念的。
• My yearning is hanging on the new moon.
  我的思念就挂在那一钩新月上。
• She is a good destination that it was the pursuit of her life and yearning.
  是它的好归宿，认为那是它一生的追求和向往，一生最美的家。
• 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。
• He always had a yearning to be a schoolteacher.
  他一直渴望当老师。