yearnings

英 [ˈjɜːnɪŋz]

美 [ˈjɜrnɪŋz]

n.  渴望; 向往
yearning的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 渴望;强烈愿望;向往
  Ayearningfor something is a very strong desire for it.
  1. He spoke of his yearning for another child...
     他说起了自己想再要一个孩子的强烈愿望。
  2. He always had a yearning to be a schoolteacher.
     他一直渴望当老师。

双语例句

• Such fantastic pictures of future society, painted at a time when the proletariat is still in a very undeveloped state and has but a fantastic conception of its own position correspond with the first instinctive yearnings of that class for a general reconstruction of society.
  这种对未来社会的幻想的描绘，是在无产阶级还很不发展、因而对本身的地位的认识还基于幻想的时候，同无产阶级对社会普遍改造的最初的本能的渴望相适应的。
• You're never too young to feel the yearnings of love, but you need to be grown up enough to handle the responsibility and emotional turmoil that can accompany it.
  并不是说你因为年龄小就不能感受爱，而是说你需要长大了才能应付那些责任和感情骚动而处理好这些事情。
• Special programs depicting Beijing's progress in its preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games and its residents 'enthusiastic participation and earnest yearnings will be filmed and shown on television.
  拍摄、播放反映北京筹办2008年奥运会进展情况和市民热情参与、喜盼奥运的专题节目；
• Although they were physically intimate on a regular basis, Harriet was increasingly conscious of inchoate desires, of unappeased yearnings, the source of which she could not quite pin down.
  尽管他们常有身体上的的亲昵行为，但哈莉特还是隐约感到有种愈来愈强、扼制不住的欲望没有得到满足。
• Those yearnings and ideals, especially the ideology of great harmony in them, are historically linked to constructing harmonious society nowadays.
  这些憧憬、理想与当前提出构建和谐社会有着许多历史的联系，其中大同思想尤为突出。
• In Chinese minds, the moon is associated with gentleness and brightness, expressing the beautiful yearnings of the Chinese.
  在中国人心里，月亮总是与温柔明亮这些词联系在一起的，这样的联想表达了中国人美好的祈望。
• In his works," death "does not necessarily mean" the end of life ". It symbolizes his yearnings for the unrealistic world, which gives people sweet fantasy.
  在三岛的作品里，“死亡”并不意味着生的终结，而是对非现实世界的憧憬，令人产生一种甘美的幻想；
• Yearnings for love, feelings of compassion, or even religious devotion accompany this time period.
  对爱情的向往、悲悯的感受，或对信仰的热爱都会在这段时间出现。
• Growing research suggests that odd food yearnings and food aversions may protect the fetus.
  越来越多的研究表明对一些奇怪食物的偏好和厌恶可能是出于保护胎儿的缘故。
• His poems are full of unfulfilled yearnings and desires.
  他的诗中充满了对未实现心愿的企盼和渴望。