wistful

英 [ˈwɪstfl]

美 [ˈwɪstfl]

adj.  伤感的; (对已不可能发生之事)徒然神往的

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Collins.1 / BNC.19804 / COCA.15300

牛津词典

adj.

• 伤感的；（对已不可能发生之事）徒然神往的
  thinking sadly about sth that you would like to have, especially sth in the past that you can no longer have
  1. a wistful smile
     伤感的微笑

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED (因求而不得)失意的，伤感的，惆怅的
  Someone who iswistfulis rather sad because they want something and know that they cannot have it.
  1. I can't help feeling slightly wistful about the perks I'm giving up...
     我不禁对自己将要放弃的津贴感到有点儿不舍。
  2. He has a wistful look.
     他神情沮丧。

英英释义

adj

• showing pensive sadness
  1. the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty
  Synonym:pensive

双语例句

• He has a wistful look.
  他神情沮丧。
• But it adds a wistful element to their romance.
  也为他们的爱情加了一份忧郁。
• Suddenly it struck me that several of my close friends kept, somewhere in their houses, an image of me dissolving in laughter. I've always preferred a rather wistful, pensive image of myself.
  突然，我醒悟到几个自己的亲密朋友，在她们的家中的某个地方，都有一幅我融于大笑中的画面。
• While most of us are content to live our lives with little more thana wistful gaze toward the heavens, others have bolder ambitions.
  当我们中的大多数人满足于带着些许渴望飞向天空的眼神生活的时候，有些人立下了更大胆的雄心壮志。
• My friend Emily said she was happy for me, but wistful, too.
  我的朋友埃米莉（Emily）说，她为我高兴，不过也有点惋惜。
• She had a last wistful look at the house.
  她依依不舍地看了屋子最后一眼。
• He died at the end of this wistful and elegiac novel.
  在这本情意绵绵的哀歌式小说的末尾，他结束了一生。
• Now she sat looking out across the park as wistful and depressed as the nature which craves variety and life can be under such circumstances.
  当她坐在那里看着对面的公园时，正像渴求变化和生命的自然界在这种时刻的情绪一样，她心里充满着企盼和忧愁。
• Those wistful little ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds.
  那些引人怀念的小广告被失恋的人收藏了起来。
• Only the angels can do that, and the angels are wise and wistful.
  只有天使能做到。天使聪慧而又不充满渴求。