yearnings

英 [ˈjɜːnɪŋz]

美 [ˈjɜrnɪŋz]

n.  渴望; 向往
yearning的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 渴望;强烈愿望;向往
  Ayearningfor something is a very strong desire for it.
  1. 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。
  2. He always had a yearning to be a schoolteacher.
     他一直渴望当老师。

双语例句

• That we can never be free of yearnings and anxieties.
  我们永远不能免费憧憬和焦虑。
• Although they were physically intimate on a regular basis, Harriet was increasingly conscious of inchoate desires, of unappeased yearnings, the source of which she could not quite pin down.
  尽管他们常有身体上的的亲昵行为，但哈莉特还是隐约感到有种愈来愈强、扼制不住的欲望没有得到满足。
• Such fantastic pictures of future society, painted at a time when the proletariat is still in a very undeveloped state and has but a fantastic conception of its own position correspond with the first instinctive yearnings of that class for a general reconstruction of society.
  这种对未来社会的幻想的描绘，是在无产阶级还很不发展、因而对本身的地位的认识还基于幻想的时候，同无产阶级对社会普遍改造的最初的本能的渴望相适应的。
• The church's spiritual life must have been polluted by my base yearnings.
  教会中的精神生活肯定被我那种低级的渴望污染了。
• In his works," death "does not necessarily mean" the end of life ". It symbolizes his yearnings for the unrealistic world, which gives people sweet fantasy.
  在三岛的作品里，“死亡”并不意味着生的终结，而是对非现实世界的憧憬，令人产生一种甘美的幻想；
• And then I reached the end, and it turns out that Natasha's brooding artistic yearnings are symptoms of a mental illness for which pregnancy is the cure.
  读到最后我发现，娜塔莎（Natasha）徘徊不去的艺术渴望是一种精神疾病的症状，而怀孕能治这种病。
• It is seeking the deepest yearnings of God's heart for us and for our group or congragation.
  它是寻求神内心深处对我们或者信徒们最殷切的期望。
• You're never too young to feel the yearnings of love, but you need to be grown up enough to handle the responsibility and emotional turmoil that can accompany it.
  并不是说你因为年龄小就不能感受爱，而是说你需要长大了才能应付那些责任和感情骚动而处理好这些事情。
• For many, the yearnings of their spiritual nature are expressed by church or synagogue membership.
  许多人是通过教堂或参加宗教组织来表达他们的精神上的渴望。
• Constantly identified with the harshness of moral yearnings, concern for the integrity of beings is painfully demonstrated.
  由于不断地认同与道德渴望的严酷，对于人类尊严的关心，令人痛苦地被证实。