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 yearning ['jә:niŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 渴望, 热望, 怀念

a. 热望的, 渴望的, 怀念的, 向往的




    yearning
    [ noun ]
    prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
    <noun.feeling>


    Yearn \Yearn\ (y[~e]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Yearned}; p. pr. &
    vb. n. {Yearning}.] [Also earn, ern; probably a corruption of
    OE. ermen to grieve, AS. ierman, yrman, or geierman, geyrman,
    fr. earm wretched, poor; akin to D. & G. arm, Icel. armr,
    Goth. arms. The y- in English is perhaps due to the AS. ge
    (see {Y-}).]
    To pain; to grieve; to vex. [Obs.] ``She laments, sir, for
    it, that it would yearn your heart to see it.'' --Shak.

    It yearns me not if men my garments wear. --Shak.

    1. "As you mark your 41st birthday, your fourth in incarceration, we join our hearts with yours in yearning for your freedom.
    2. Companies yearning for Ordinary Joes offer free emergency road service and free long-distance calling on weekends. Others try to bait the hook with cheap equipment rentals.
    3. Perhaps this film simply represents a yearning for a simpler time, before the ugly reality of AIDS took the romance out of dying young.
    4. Other demonstrators sat at the edge of the buffer zone, singing religious hymns and songs of yearning about their lost homes and waving Greek and Cypriot flags and banners.
    5. His leadership over 100 days, or 130, and probably over four or eight years, will not satisfy their yearning for the certainties of Ronald Reagan's conservatism.
    6. "The yearning for freedom is a basic human emotion, and freedom of the individual is a value shared by all nations that will work together to build and use the space station," Fitzwater said.
    7. Finally comes the wondrous "Shepherd on the Rock," which transverses the range of a lover's emotions _ yearning, grief, loneliness, longing and the joy of anticipation.
    8. I began to wonder if my yearning for little-celebrated, little-visited places in Italy was sensible after all. I needed reassurance.
    9. This has led to further criticism from liberals, yearning for a less autocratic successor.
    10. In that film, he merged fantasy and intellectual yearning with magical grace.
    11. Stone crab fans waited for the season's first catches of the Gulf of Mexico's top crustacean like wine lovers yearning for the year's first Beaujolais nouveau or New Englanders watching for leaves to turn color.
    12. Consequently, the record is top-heavy with songs of shattered romance and late-night yearning.
    13. The unsurprising result is polygyny (multiple matings by men), mostly serial. The female search for men with significant earning potential matches the male yearning for younger partners.
    14. Europe's first woman prime minister was elected by a nation weary of strikes and inflation and yearning for strong government to reverse a national decline.
    15. What provides a beacon of hope for Burma is that the people themselves have already replaced the defunct ideals of socialism with a yearning for democracy.
    16. His lame-shot silk print chiffon blouses will be coveted by anybody with a yearning to shimmer and shine, at any time of day.
    17. Recent events in Tucuman show how quickly Argentina's idealistic new voters, voters who elected civilian President Raul Alfonsin on a human-rights platform just four years ago, can start yearning for the rigors of martial law when the economy sours.
    18. "We seek understanding between the German and Polish peoples," he said. "This is our duty and it accords with the yearning of both nations.
    19. Few believe the 3 per cent objective for 1994 is attainable. 'There seems to be a yearning in industry for a return to Portugal's old 'crawling peg' system of devaluation,' said one foreign consultant.
    20. With the bashing of 1980s greed in high fashion, Mr. Buffett's homey, guileless persona fills a public yearning for integrity.
    21. For him, after an adolescence spent yearning to leave his parents' orderly, boring Tasmanian house, "flight was always my ambition, my motive and my motor."
    22. All of our dreams, they are nightmares." The snarling guard dogs that patrolled the Berlin Wall held back East Germans yearning to breathe free in the West, but they also kept an unwelcome visitor at bay - the rabid fox.
    23. There really is a yearning across this land for leadership that appeals to the noble in us rather than the greed in us.
    24. Mr. Allen deliberately kept any kind of comedy out of this airless little drama about unfulfilled yearning among the urban elite.
    25. At some point between the age of about ten (when many children are still unselfconsciously voracious readers) and twelve, the desire to read is often replaced by a yearning to do almost anything but read.
    26. A former fugitive and a former political prisoner, he shares the same yearning for Islamic government as "Hashem."
    27. The picture also is about yearning and hopeless romanticism and what Paris was like in the '20s for the expatriate American writers and artists who hung around together there.
    28. The Chinese government has responded by dealing out death and arrests to thousands, but it cannot rub out the Chinese people's yearning for liberty.
    29. They aren't cruel to the girl, just insensitive to the yearning she feels for her romanticized mother.
    30. It would be a fairly familiar story, except for the extremely specific ways in which Mr. Riggs presents black homosexual love and yearning.
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