wistful的意思|wistful的解释-里氏词典

wistful ['wistful]

a. 渴望的, 想望的

wistful

[ adj ]
showing pensive sadness
<adj.all>
the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty

Wistful \Wist"ful\, a. [For wishful; perhaps influenced by
wistly, which is probably corrupted from OE. wisly certainly
(from Icel. viss certain, akin to E. wit). See {Wish}.]
1. Longing; wishful; desirous.

Lifting up one of my sashes, I cast many a wistful,
melancholy look towards the sea. --Swift.

2. Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing;
pensive; contemplative.

That he who there at such an hour hath been,
Will wistful linger on that hallowed spot. --Byron.
※ -- {Wist"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Wist"ful*ness},
n.

But there was still some wistful talk of cut in interest rates. 'It hasn't lost it for us, but ask me next week whether it's won it,' one backbencher with a 6,000-odd majority said yesterday.
William, a wistful observer of other people's acts, a model of tact, is a perfect Petherbridge role.
Lancaster's most mature performance came when he took on the challenge of portraying the wistful Sicilian prince in Visconti's The Leopard (1963).
There are voluptuous mermaids, including a Chinese ivory odalisque, and wistful ones, such as Frederick Stuart Church's 19th-century etching of a mermaid astride a goggle-eyed sea horse.
The voice has a wistful intensity which you can hardly escape from, and if the songs are despairing at least genuine depths of feeling are being plumbed. The final two albums show up the limitations of the Mercury Prize.
He explained, with a wistful smile: 'I just fell into the dour mode because it was the best way to stay in the Test team.

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