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Yearning Strong Means Begins 英 Jɜːnɪŋ] 美 Jɜːrnɪŋ N.渴望;思慕

英语单词 yearning
英美音标 英 ['jɜːnɪŋ] 美 ['jɜːrnɪŋ]
中文释义 n.渴望;思慕
adj.渴望的;怀念的
动词yearn的现在分词.
英语例句 (1) It showed man's yearning for happiness and love.
(2) All that they do is cry to God with yearning hearts.
(3) The yearning street begins to escape; the escaping person begins to be yearned.
中文例句 (1) 它表现了人类对爱情幸福的渴望与追求。
(2) 他们所做的只是用渴望的心来对神大喊。
(3) 令我们怀念的地方已经消失了;那些消失的人仍然令我们怀念。
vocabulary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.
vocabulary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."
柯林斯解释
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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。

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