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Yearning Strong Means Jə:Ni N.向往 Adj.怀念的,向往的 Desire Travel

英语单词 yearning
英美音标 ['jə:ni]
中文释义 n.向往
adj.怀念的,向往的
vocab简明 A yearning is a strong desire. If you have a yearning to travel in Africa, it means that you dream about it and intensely hope that one day you'll end up there.
vocab扩展 A strong longing for something is a yearning for it. If you have a yearning for ice cream, it probably means that you've gone a long time without any and are almost desperate to taste some. The Old English root of the words yearn and yearning is georn, which means "eager or desirous."
真题原句 In them we can see biophilia—a yearning for contact with nonhuman life-assuming uncanny representational forms.
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[N-VAR 可变名词]渴望;强烈愿望;向往 A yearning for something is a very strong desire for it.
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  • 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。

  • He always had a yearning to be a schoolteacher.

    他一直渴望当老师。

来源 2013.6

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