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yearning

/yur-ning/US // ˈyɜr nɪŋ //UK // (ˈjɜːnɪŋ) //

渴望,眷恋,欲望,思念

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Definitions

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

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Examples

  • 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.

  • Every image is full of the deepest yearnings for freedom and independence.

  • It’s a yearning that’s become familiar during this pandemic, for those things I know I can’t have.

  • 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.”

  • Yet they’re also about many different types of isolation and the human yearning to not be alone.

  • Yet, many do not find in this shared, human yearning a reason to regard immigrants as “like us” rather than “not like us.”

  • He was constantly yearning to be a politician and an editor at the same time.

  • Yet the tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free did not always find what they expected in America.

  • Each was in a day-by-day survival mode—each in his own way yearning for self-worth.

  • “If You Had My Love” was silky-smooth with just the right amount of anguished yearning.

  • But also it was an inarticulate yearning to find that state of safety where he and she dwelt secure from separation—in the 'sea.'

  • She could have swooned, so intoxicant was her wonder and her solemn joy and her yearning after righteousness in love.

  • It was the starving sense of loneliness, the aching sense of loss, the yearning and the vain desire that made it seem so long.

  • There were other causes entering into this unrest besides his yearning desire to win Ramona for his wife.

  • 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.