hankering

英 [ˈhæŋkərɪŋ]

美 [ˈhæŋkərɪŋ]

n.  (对或做某事的)强烈欲望
v.  渴望，渴求(某事物)
hanker的现在分词

现在分词：hankering　

GRE

BNC.35868 / COCA.33521

牛津词典

noun

• （对或做某事的）强烈欲望
  a strong desire
  1. a hankering for a wealthy lifestyle
     渴望过富裕生活

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 渴望;热望
  Ahankering forsomething is a desire or longing for it.
  1. From time to time we all get a hankering for something a little different...
     我们每个人偶尔都会渴望有点变化。
  2. Have you always had a hankering to be an actress?
     你是否一直渴望成为一名演员？

英英释义

noun

• a yearning for something or to do something
  Synonym:yen

双语例句

• He has been hankering to spend an evening talking with you.
  他一直渴望能找一天跟你谈一晚。
• Detachment, buddy, and only detachment, desirelessness, cessation from all hankering.
  超然，巴蒂，唯一的超然，无欲无求，所有的渴望欲望停止。
• Most of us have a hankering for the good things on both sides of the line.
  我们中间大部分人都热切盼望两方面的好东西。
• And his strongly hankering for art.
  对诗歌艺术美的强烈追求。
• The objective of hydrocarbon traps exploration is hankering for maximum pr of it.
  油气圈闭勘探以追求最小投入和最大利润为目的。
• Somewhere along the line in one damn incarnation or another, if you like, you not only had a hankering to be an actor or an actress, but to be a good one. You're stuck with it now.
  在线路的某个地方，在化身或其他东西里，如果你想要，你不仅能渴望成为一个演员，也能成为一个出色的演员，你想现在是被困住了。
• Problem is, once you are used to life's finest, that hankering can be hard to satisfy.
  问题是，一旦习惯了最豪华的生活，要想再上一层楼会十分困难。
• Have you always had a hankering to be an actress?
  你是否一直渴望成为一名演员？
• Thanks to its tropical climate, zoo-wrecking hurricanes and a greater-than-usual number of people with a hankering for fashionably exotic pets, Florida is an invasive-species mecca.
  由于地处热带，而且飓风让动物园面目全非，再加上一大帮珍禽异兽的狂热粉丝，佛罗里达成了这些外来物种的“圣城”。
• I've got a hankering for Chinese food tonight.
  今晚我想去吃中餐。