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

• But I would like this life which moves and yearns in me, to be able itself to attain to comeliness, though but in transitory performance.
  我还是希望，渴望并变化着的我的生命能够籍自身而美丽，即使只能转瞬即逝。
• Joey yearns for Kate, but since he can't have her, he goes out with her understudy;
  乔伊非常喜欢凯特，不过却搭不上手，只好和第二女主角约会；
• What I dread is to get into a rut. One yearns for freshness of thought and ideas.
  我害怕的就是墨守成规。人总是向往新思想和新观念的。
• Mr Hu, however, probably yearns for the good old days.
  但胡大概也怀念美好的旧时光吧。
• A part of us yearns, hopes, for something better.
  我们对更好的事物颇有几分追求，颇抱几分希望。
• I am a space laminar flow cloud, yearns for the unrestrained freedom!
  我是天上一片流云，向往无拘无束的自由！
• He is what Voldemort yearns to be-immortal!
  这就是为什么伏地魔称他不朽的原因。
• Man is the only creature on earth that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
  人类是地球上唯一寻求超越自我，并热衷于追求不可能的目标的生物。
• My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
  等我的心神渴想着永恒主的院子、到晕过去；我的心肠我的血肉都欢呼，颂赞我生命之上帝（或译：永活的上帝）。
• Our country yearns for reform.
  俄罗斯渴望的是改革。