yearns

英 [jɜːnz]

美 [jɜːrnz]

v.  渴望; 渴求
yearn的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 渴望;渴求;向往
  If someoneyearns forsomething that they are unlikely to get, they want it very much.
  1. He yearned for freedom...
     他渴望自由。
  2. I yearned to be a movie actor.
     我曾渴望成为一名电影演员。

双语例句

• Mr Hu, however, probably yearns for the good old days.
  但胡大概也怀念美好的旧时光吧。
• What I dread is to get into a rut. One yearns for freshness of thought and ideas.
  我害怕的就是墨守成规。人总是向往新思想和新观念的。
• But the most shocking truth is this: Almighty God yearns to be your Friend!
  但最令人震撼的事是一全能的神渴望成为你的好朋友！
• Now living in Iowa, Kimber yearns for a place that offers that same convivial atmosphere.
  现在居住在爱荷华州，金伯渴望这里也有一个地方能够提供同样的欢乐气氛。
• One of the most powerful ways to do this is through human touch, for a loving, comforting touch allows us to access the part of ourselves that yearns for a sense of oneness with the world around us.
  最最突出的例子就是通过肢体的接触，通过一种充满爱的，让人舒服的肤慰让我们接触到自己那个渴望和世界融为一体的部分。
• He yearns for order and paints out of necessity;
  他渴望规律，在贫穷的处境中作画；
• I overhear that the hearty man heartily yearns for my harness in the barn.
  我无意中听说那个热忱的人十分向往我的牲口棚中的马具。
• But I would like this life which moves and yearns in me, to be able itself to attain to comeliness, though but in transitory performance.
  我还是希望，渴望并变化着的我的生命能够籍自身而美丽，即使只能转瞬即逝。
• Just as every American boy yearns to be a football quarter-back, so girls yearn to head the cheerleading squad, amidst vicious real-life rivalry.
  正像每个美国男孩儿都想成为美式足球场上的四分卫一样，每个女孩儿也都渴望在怀有恶意的真实竞争中，成为啦啦队队长。
• A part of us yearns, hopes, for something better.
  我们对更好的事物颇有几分追求，颇抱几分希望。