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wishes

/wish/US // wɪʃ //UK // (wɪʃ) //

愿望,希望,祝愿,意愿

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
  1. 1
    • : 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

  • Nancy, on the other hand, was incapable of communicating her wishes.

  • A two-time Obama voter, Frank lives in a section of Haddam where blacks once resided and wishes he had one black friend.

  • Diane and Alicia keep make decisions either without him or that directly go against his wishes.

  • His violent, angry raps are the words he wishes he could say to people he wishes would listen.

  • She wishes to have her parents meet her at the hospital at the same time, hoping that will reunite them.

  • One frequently wishes to ascertain the specific gravity of quantities of fluid too small to float an urinometer.

  • He is simply hearing every tone, knowing exactly what effect he wishes to produce and how to do it.

  • He is what the bill wishes to make for us, a regular root doctor, and will suit the place exactly.

  • The Duke found no difficulty in awakening the wishes, which were necessary to his scheme, in the mind of young Lorraine.

  • That his friend had withdrawn, was a pledge of his pacific wishes; and, with a lightened countenance, Louis rose from his knee.

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