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

• Mr Hu, however, probably yearns for the good old days.
  但胡大概也怀念美好的旧时光吧。
• Yearns to hear from you when you're away.
  渴望收到你的消息，当你离开的时候。
• Our country yearns for reform.
  俄罗斯渴望的是改革。
• The Queen added: The world yearns for examples of positive transformation and of people overcoming differences.
  女王接着说道：全世界都期盼着有一个好的结果，与克服了困难的人们作为榜样。
• 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。
• 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。
• Just as every American boy yearns to be a football quarter-back, so girls yearn to head the cheerleading squad, amidst vicious real-life rivalry.
  正像每个美国男孩儿都想成为美式足球场上的四分卫一样，每个女孩儿也都渴望在怀有恶意的真实竞争中，成为啦啦队队长。
• She yearns to visit the village where she was born.
  她热切盼望能去她出生的那个村子看看。
• He yearns for order and paints out of necessity;
  他渴望规律，在贫穷的处境中作画；
• Every man yearns for sympathy in sorrow.
  每个遇到不幸的人都渴望得到同情。