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

• He knows when the yearnings of love are there.
  何处有爱的渴望，祂都知道。
• Special programs depicting Beijing's progress in its preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games and its residents 'enthusiastic participation and earnest yearnings will be filmed and shown on television.
  拍摄、播放反映北京筹办2008年奥运会进展情况和市民热情参与、喜盼奥运的专题节目；
• In his works," death "does not necessarily mean" the end of life ". It symbolizes his yearnings for the unrealistic world, which gives people sweet fantasy.
  在三岛的作品里，“死亡”并不意味着生的终结，而是对非现实世界的憧憬，令人产生一种甘美的幻想；
• 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。
• Trans students point out that they're doing exactly what these schools encourage: breaking gender barriers, fulfilling their deepest yearnings and forging ahead even when society tries to hold them back.
  跨性别学生们指出，他们做的正是这些学院所鼓励的：打破性别藩篱，实现内心深处的愿望，不顾社会羁绊而奋勇向前。
• They felt strong yearnings toward home.
  他们封家乡有着强烈的思念之情。
• In Chinese minds, the moon is associated with gentleness and brightness, expressing the beautiful yearnings of the Chinese.
  在中国人心里，月亮总是与温柔明亮这些词联系在一起的，这样的联想表达了中国人美好的祈望。
• Such fantastic pictures of future society, painted at a time when the proletariat is still in a very undeveloped state and has but a fantastic conception of its own position correspond with the first instinctive yearnings of that class for a general reconstruction of society.
  这种对未来社会的幻想的描绘，是在无产阶级还很不发展、因而对本身的地位的认识还基于幻想的时候，同无产阶级对社会普遍改造的最初的本能的渴望相适应的。
• That we can never be free of yearnings and anxieties.
  我们永远不能免费憧憬和焦虑。
• Through these patterns and images, people express jubilation, good luck, and blessings; in them they entrust their hopes and yearnings for a good life.
  人们通过这样图案形象，传达了喜庆、吉祥如意和祝福之意，又寄托了对美好生活的向往和憧憬。