yearnings

英 [ˈjɜːnɪŋz]

美 [ˈjɜrnɪŋz]

n.  渴望; 向往
yearning的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 渴望;强烈愿望;向往
  Ayearningfor something is a very strong desire for it.
  1. He spoke of his yearning for another child...
     他说起了自己想再要一个孩子的强烈愿望。
  2. He always had a yearning to be a schoolteacher.
     他一直渴望当老师。

双语例句

• His poems are full of unfulfilled yearnings and desires.
  他的诗中充满了对未实现心愿的企盼和渴望。
• He knows when the yearnings of love are there.
  何处有爱的渴望，祂都知道。
• Certainly the Washington of my memory is shaped by my soul at the time, by its yearnings and losses and hopes, all for other things.
  当然，我对华盛顿的记忆是由我当时的心灵状态，它的向往、它的失却与希望涉及的完全是其他事物形成的。
• You're never too young to feel the yearnings of love, but you need to be grown up enough to handle the responsibility and emotional turmoil that can accompany it.
  并不是说你因为年龄小就不能感受爱，而是说你需要长大了才能应付那些责任和感情骚动而处理好这些事情。
• They felt strong yearnings toward home.
  他们封家乡有着强烈的思念之情。
• With the elegant sentiment and variable models, the Chinese export porcelain gave the European society at that time a brand-new view of matters and a sort of yearnings for brighter lives.
  中国外销瓷以其精致优雅的情调和富有变化的造型，给予当时欧洲世界一个全新的看待事物的视角和对幸福生活的憧憬。
• Those yearnings and ideals, especially the ideology of great harmony in them, are historically linked to constructing harmonious society nowadays.
  这些憧憬、理想与当前提出构建和谐社会有着许多历史的联系，其中大同思想尤为突出。
• Although they were physically intimate on a regular basis, Harriet was increasingly conscious of inchoate desires, of unappeased yearnings, the source of which she could not quite pin down.
  尽管他们常有身体上的的亲昵行为，但哈莉特还是隐约感到有种愈来愈强、扼制不住的欲望没有得到满足。
• And then I reached the end, and it turns out that Natasha's brooding artistic yearnings are symptoms of a mental illness for which pregnancy is the cure.
  读到最后我发现，娜塔莎（Natasha）徘徊不去的艺术渴望是一种精神疾病的症状，而怀孕能治这种病。
• That we can never be free of yearnings and anxieties.
  我们永远不能免费憧憬和焦虑。