wish for
希望,希望得到,希望获得,希望能够
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Definitions
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- : to want; desire; long for: I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
- : to desire to be: to wish the problem settled.
- : to entertain wishes, favorably or otherwise, for: to wish someone well; to wish someone ill.
- : to bid, as in greeting or leave-taking: to wish someone a good morning.
- : to request or charge: I wish him to come.
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- : to desire; long; yearn: Mother says I may go if I wish. I wished for a book.
- : to make a wish: She wished more than she worked.
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- : an act or instance of wishing.
- : a request or command: I was never forgiven for disregarding my father's wishes.
- : an expression of a wish, often one of a kindly or courteous nature: to send one's best wishes.
- : something wished or desired: He got his wish—a new car.
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- : wish on, to force or impose: I wouldn't wish that awful job on my worst enemy.Also wish upon. to make a wish using some object as a magical talisman: to wish on a star.
Phrases
- wish on
- if wishes were horses
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Sending our love and best wishes to you both as you start your new life together.
While there is a wish amongst leaders to protect their own people first, the response to this pandemic has to be collective.
There’s a wish list from San Diego Council members of what they’d like to get done with that $62 million.
We get lots of encouraging comments from users whose wishes were included in our roadmap.
Now, it should be noted that meta robots tag might be ignored at any point, but mostly crawlers respect the wishes of the webmasters.
And yes, our values include tolerance of those who wish to make fun of religion.
I wish I was a young Carole King, working in the Brill Building.
Ultimately, 2015 might be the year American anti-LGBT advocates wish they could skip.
At this point Marvin gives his Liberty Valance smile, the kind that makes you wish you could disintegrate in front of him.
Still, I wish that DuVernay had given us more about those who are less famous besides a scene where they all eat dinner together.
When Yima pressed the earth with this ring, the genius of the Earth, Aramaîti, responded to his wish and order.
I mean it is well my mother is ill, and doesn't wish to eat, for there would be nothing for her, if she did.
At the end of the first year, however, she resigned this privilege because she did not wish to accept the conditions of the gift.
How often did I then wish myself with my dear Glumdalchtch, from whom one single hour had so far divided me.
As the hopeless wish passed through his soul, the iron entered with it, but did not pass away.