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

• Every child has a soul which yearns, and carries a longing on his lap and goes to sleep with it, hoping to find that his dream come true when he wakes up with the morn.
  每个小孩子都有一颗思慕的和切望的灵魂，怀着一种热望去睡觉，希望在早晨醒转时发现他的梦想已成为事实。
• One man yearns freedom, long for beauty.
  男人向往自由，渴望美好。
• 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。
• Offscreen, he admits that he likes kids very much himself, he yearns for marriage.
  戏外的他坦言自己很喜欢小孩，也渴望婚姻。
• 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）。
• Every Chinese suffering from the disasters of the war and fighting for the survival of his nation daily yearns for victory.
  身受战争灾难、为着自己民族的生存而奋斗的每一个中国人，无日不在渴望战争的胜利。
• But I would like this life which moves and yearns in me, to be able itself to attain to comeliness, though but in transitory performance.
  我还是希望，渴望并变化着的我的生命能够籍自身而美丽，即使只能转瞬即逝。
• Every man yearns for sympathy in sorrow.
  每个遇到不幸的人都渴望得到同情。
• Thou canst not think, said the minister, glancing aside at Hester Prynne, how my heart dreads this interview, and yearns for it!
  你难以想象，牧师说着，偏过头来瞥了一眼海丝特白兰，我又害怕这次见面，又盼着这次见面的那种心理！
• I guess everyone yearns for love.
  我想每个人都渴望爱情吧。