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

• Every man yearns for sympathy in sorrow.
  每个遇到不幸的人都渴望得到同情。
• 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。
• He yearns for order and paints out of necessity;
  他渴望规律，在贫穷的处境中作画；
• 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！
• 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。
• She yearns to visit the village where she was born.
  她热切盼望能去她出生的那个村子看看。
• Everyone yearns for something he doesn't have.
  每个人都渴望得到他没有的东西。
• Mr Hu, however, probably yearns for the good old days.
  但胡大概也怀念美好的旧时光吧。
• Joey yearns for Kate, but since he can't have her, he goes out with her understudy;
  乔伊非常喜欢凯特，不过却搭不上手，只好和第二女主角约会；
• Our country yearns for reform.
  俄罗斯渴望的是改革。