英语单词 | yearning |
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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. |
柯林斯星级 | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [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. [oft N
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来源 | 2013.6 |
Tags: 单词::2013
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