yearning / ˈyɜr nɪŋ /

💦中学词汇渴望眷恋欲望思念

yearning 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. deep longing, especially when accompanied by tenderness or sadness: a widower's yearning for his wife.
  2. an instance of such longing.

yearning 近义词

n. 名词 noun

desire

更多yearning例句

  1. This may or may not show a national yearning to complain as a means of passing the time, and it hints that the complaining might continue even through this coronavirus-wrecked year when maybe it shouldn’t.
  2. Every image is full of the deepest yearnings for freedom and independence.
  3. It’s a yearning that’s become familiar during this pandemic, for those things I know I can’t have.
  4. Eventually, he says, “there will be a yearning to meet new people once again, and when it’s safe to do so, we’ll be there at the ready.”
  5. Yet they’re also about many different types of isolation and the human yearning to not be alone.
  6. Yet, many do not find in this shared, human yearning a reason to regard immigrants as “like us” rather than “not like us.”
  7. He was constantly yearning to be a politician and an editor at the same time.
  8. Yet the tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free did not always find what they expected in America.
  9. Each was in a day-by-day survival mode—each in his own way yearning for self-worth.
  10. “If You Had My Love” was silky-smooth with just the right amount of anguished yearning.
  11. But also it was an inarticulate yearning to find that state of safety where he and she dwelt secure from separation—in the 'sea.'
  12. She could have swooned, so intoxicant was her wonder and her solemn joy and her yearning after righteousness in love.
  13. It was the starving sense of loneliness, the aching sense of loss, the yearning and the vain desire that made it seem so long.
  14. There were other causes entering into this unrest besides his yearning desire to win Ramona for his wife.
  15. He longed for death with a full and yearning desire, and he could kiss the hand that would be merciful and give the fatal blow.