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hankering

/hang-ker-ing/US // ˈhæŋ kər ɪŋ //

渴望,欲望,想法,想要的东西

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a longing; craving.

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Examples

  • Isaacman, the 37-year-old billionaire founder of online payment processing provider Shift4 payments, is a private pilot who always had a hankering to go to space.

  • Some would no doubt keep dancing as they waited for the L train, hankering for the next episode of Morning Gloryville.

  • Indeed, this is not the kind of shop that would appeal to the 50-something woman with a hankering for flash and sizzle.

  • But Israelis and Palestinians don't vote in U.S. elections, whether they're hankering for peace or not.

  • Why go patrolling with a nine-millimeter pistol if you are not angrily hankering to use it?

  • Food Destination Hankering for some sun and sand right here in the States?

  • He had seen men in that mood before, and he had no hankering for trouble which is vastly easier to start than it is to stop.

  • There's the widow Babbage, down to Dock: she always had a hankering for you.

  • Anyhow Im not hankering to go pushin on with that redoubt bunch shootin holes in my back, which theyd surely do.

  • I have always had a hankering after this sort of life, and I find it was a true instinct of what would suit me.

  • Wagner still had a hankering after imposing spectacle and brilliant choral writing.