longings

英 [ˈlɒŋɪŋz]

美 [ˈlɔŋɪŋz]

n.  (对…的)渴望，热望
longing的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 渴望；热望；憧憬
  If you feellongingor alonging forsomething, you have a rather sad feeling because you want it very much.
  1. He felt a longing for the familiar...
     他渴望找到知交。
  2. Imelda spoke of her longing to return home...
     伊美尔达说她期望能够回家。
  3. I was overwhelmed with longing for those innocent days of early childhood.
     我内心充满着对纯真的童年时光的怀念。

双语例句

• I paint you and fashion you ever with my love longings.
  我永远用爱恋的渴望来描画你。
• Old longings nomadic leap, chafing at customs chain again from its brumal sleep wakens the ferine strain.
  长久以来的渴望不时闪动，因为世俗的羁绊而怒火中烧，将再次从冬眠中唤醒那野生的天性。
• The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand a-tiptoe to peep at the heaven.
  1群树好像表达大地的愿望似的，跷脚站着，向天空窥望。
• Appetite is the keenness of living; it is one of the senses that tells you that you are still curious to exist, that you stillhave an edge on your longings and want to bite into the world and taste its multitudinous flavours and juices.
  食欲是对生存的强烈渴望；这一咸官告诉你，你对生存仍有好奇心，你和欲望和期待仍很旺盛，依然希望咀嚼这大千世界，品尝它五花八门的风味和甜汁儿。
• He may have been in the father's house but he never shared in the longings of the father's heart over the younger son.
  他虽然一直住在父的家中，却从没有明白父亲的心，没有分担父亲挂念弟弟的痛苦。
• At the moment, the window again sounded the produced crackling's firecrackers, this is the people of farewell old, but also people reluctant to go for happiness in the New Year longings.
  此刻，窗外又响起了噼里啪啦的鞭炮声，这是人们告别旧年的恋恋不舍，也是人们对新年的美好憧憬。
• The desire to promote evidence of anomalous and paranormal events as genuine springs from deep human longings.
  人类内心深处渴望证明反常、灵异的事件。
• I told him about my longings to look for birds in my surroundings, which is not to be a religious Buddhist, but for a reflection on my work for the urban planning, architecture and landscape design.
  虽然并非虔诚的佛教徒，但有一些同感，我喜欢寻找在我周围的鸟类，也来反思在城市规划，建筑设计和景观设计方面的工作。
• Nobler thoughts and nobler longings were throbbing through my brain.
  更高尚的思想和渴望在头脑中冲荡。
• So many people ( women in particular) doubt the validity of their feelings or repress their deepest longings because they think they're wrong to have them.
  很多的人（尤其是女人）怀疑他们感觉的正确性，或者压制最深的渴望，因为他们觉得他们不该有。