yearn 的定义
- to have an earnest or strong desire; long: to yearn for a quiet vacation.
- to feel tenderness; be moved or attracted: They yearned over their delicate child.
yearn 近义词
desire strongly
更多yearn例句
- In the sense that many people are out of a job and yearning for a sense of security agencies can’t give them.
- Perhaps I had become irredeemably out of control because the direction and encouragement I yearned for at home was absent.
- Weary of the disruptions, students yearn to return to the classroom.
- If you yearn for tranquility, you’ll spend your life in turmoil because that’s not what life is like.
- It’s the kind of experience that makes one yearn for a simple life.
- Over 2,000 people graduate from university each year in Bhutan, and they yearn for professional work.
- We may yearn for them but they are unreachable now, left in a past that seems almost to belong to a distant planet.
- It's at a time like this that Germans yearn most for Paul the Octopus, the great mollusk soothsayer for Germany.
- Fine—many (though not all) transgender people yearn to take on their felt gender role.
- I yearn for an America where people in positions of leadership actually take actual responsibility for their actual failures.
- I yearn for one now, but will not endeavour to procure one, I wish to be a father, yet refuse to be a husband or enact his part.'
- Your 'gift,' your genius, is yourself, and it's because it's yourself that I yearn for you.
- How often, during my ministry, did I yearn to be able to utter that emphatic word!
- All that blood in the water made a fine sight, made him yearn all the more to wet his hands with blood.
- Neither did he yearn for fair persons—sometimes containing a soul—obtainable at a price for ineffable delight.