yearns

英 [jɜːnz]

美 [jɜːrnz]

v.  渴望; 渴求
yearn的第三人称单数

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

• Man is the only creature on earth that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
  人类是地球上唯一寻求超越自我，并热衷于追求不可能的目标的生物。
• A part of us yearns, hopes, for something better.
  我们对更好的事物颇有几分追求，颇抱几分希望。
• Every man yearns for sympathy in sorrow.
  每个遇到不幸的人都渴望得到同情。
• Just as every American boy yearns to be a football quarter-back, so girls yearn to head the cheerleading squad, amidst vicious real-life rivalry.
  正像每个美国男孩儿都想成为美式足球场上的四分卫一样，每个女孩儿也都渴望在怀有恶意的真实竞争中，成为啦啦队队长。
• What I dread is to get into a rut. One yearns for freshness of thought and ideas.
  我害怕的就是墨守成规。人总是向往新思想和新观念的。
• Joey yearns for Kate, but since he can't have her, he goes out with her understudy;
  乔伊非常喜欢凯特，不过却搭不上手，只好和第二女主角约会；
• I guess everyone yearns for love.
  我想每个人都渴望爱情吧。
• He yearns for order and paints out of necessity;
  他渴望规律，在贫穷的处境中作画；
• Now living in Iowa, Kimber yearns for a place that offers that same convivial atmosphere.
  现在居住在爱荷华州，金伯渴望这里也有一个地方能够提供同样的欢乐气氛。
• She yearns to visit the village where she was born.
  她热切盼望能去她出生的那个村子看看。