yearned

英 [jɜːnd]

美 [jɜːrnd]

v.  渴望; 渴求
yearn的过去分词和过去式

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

• Nevertheless, I yearned for a career that would also give me the chance to help the underprivileged.
  可是，我渴望着获得一份职业，使我有机会帮助社会底层的人民。
• He yearned to see his family again.
  他渴望看到家里的人。
• He yearned to ask her to marry him.
  他强烈希望要她嫁给他。
• I yearned for the knowledge that would dissolve this cloak of darkness encompassing her illness.
  我急切的想知道治疗她疾病的知识。
• People have yearned for change in this country.
  人民渴望这个国家能有真正的改变。
• He once yearned so frightfully for that occupation, and it was so welcome when it came;
  他曾经严重地渴望那种职业活动，在它出现时他便非常欢迎。
• For everybody introduction, this is a place which I most yearned for, is the swan castle, although did not know, this world does have, a such place, but, he depends on the old stock my dream.
  给大家介绍，这是我最向往的地方，是天鹅城堡，虽然不知道，这个世界到底有没有，这样的一个地方，但是，他还是依旧存着我的梦。
• He came to love her and hoped to marry her, and thus acquire the wealth and social position for which he yearned.
  结果，他爱上了她并想和她结婚，这样一来，他就可以得到梦寐以求的财富和社会地位。
• Regarding expensive is the good academic condition and the rigorous academic atmosphere I has yearned.
  对于贵系良好的学术条件和严谨的学术气氛我一直向往不已。
• We yearned for beauty, truth and meaning in our lives.
  我们渴望生活中有美、真理和意义。