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

• 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。
• My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
  等我的心神渴想着永恒主的院子、到晕过去；我的心肠我的血肉都欢呼，颂赞我生命之上帝（或译：永活的上帝）。
• Mr Hu, however, probably yearns for the good old days.
  但胡大概也怀念美好的旧时光吧。
• 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。
• I overhear that the hearty man heartily yearns for my harness in the barn.
  我无意中听说那个热忱的人十分向往我的牲口棚中的马具。
• The Queen added: The world yearns for examples of positive transformation and of people overcoming differences.
  女王接着说道：全世界都期盼着有一个好的结果，与克服了困难的人们作为榜样。
• 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。
• 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。
• One man yearns freedom, long for beauty.
  男人向往自由，渴望美好。
• I guess everyone yearns for love.
  我想每个人都渴望爱情吧。