wistfully的意思|wistfully的解释-里氏词典

wistfully ['wistfuli]

ad. 不满足地,渴望地

wistfully

[ adv ]
in a wistful manner
<adv.all>
his sister would have looked beautiful in that dress, he thought wistfully, just like an angel

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.

Still, he adds wistfully, "it'd be nice."
Britain is sending only Mr Douglas Hogg, minister of state at the Foreign Office, rather than Prime Minister John Major or foreign secretary Mr Douglas Hurd. 'I should have liked Mr Major or Mr Hurd to come in person,' says King Hassan wistfully.
"There wasn't much business," the softspoken executive recalls wistfully.
The exiled students watch wistfully as movements of the people sweep Eastern Europe's Communist parties from power _ and China's continuing crackdown from newspaper front pages.
In one ad, an MCI technical supervisor looks wistfully out his office window and says, "Maybe some day we'll work 9 to 5. At least that's what I tell my wife."
The "family business" atmosphere at HVG probably will disappear, Ms. Kocsis says wistfully.
Instead, at her end-of-summit news conference Friday, she merely noted wistfully that French forces remained outside the NATO command.
Still, Mrs. Hughes says wistfully, trade with the U.S.'s northern neighbor has its appeal: "It's a perfect way to cut your teeth in foreign trade."
Ford, which wistfully remembers its dominance of the import market before World War II, arranged last year for a 200-dealer network to handle its cars.
"I just loved how she talked and wanted her to teach me everything," she says wistfully.
Clevelanders wistfully recall better days.
It's not quite right, but it's close," she said, admiring her work and wistfully recalling the days when clothes were plainer.
"He told us we can't get on the floor during the convention," Mrs. Kahn, of Savannah, said a little wistfully. "There are too many requests, and he'll bend over backwards not to show favoritism.
The prurient England of sex comedy, maybe; or the wistfully elegiac England committed to autumnal resignation.
'The sound quality's not brilliant,' he said wistfully.
At the same time, Todd in his barber shop at the other end of the stage is singing wistfully about Johanna while he distractedly slits the throat of a customer and drops him casually through a chute to Mrs. Lovett's bake shop below.
"Nobody knew who I was," says Mr. Gephardt, almost wistfully.

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