yearned

英 [jɜːnd]

美 [jɜːrnd]

v.  渴望; 渴求
yearn的过去分词和过去式

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

• He yearned to ask her to marry him.
  他强烈希望要她嫁给他。
• He yearned for her love.
  他渴望得到她的爱。
• He yearned for his home and family.
  他渴望回家与家人相聚。
• He yearned for freedom
  他渴望自由。
• I yearned to be a movie actor.
  我曾渴望成为一名电影演员。
• He yearned for wearing a set of descent vesture in front of female schoolmates;
  他渴望穿一身体面的衣裳站在女同学的面前；
• Never stopped Diana from striving to show the world the love that she herself yearned for.
  从未终止她向世人散播爱心的努力，这份爱正是她所渴望获得的。
• I yearned for the knowledge that would dissolve this cloak of darkness encompassing her illness.
  我急切的想知道治疗她疾病的知识。
• He came to love her and hoped to marry her, and thus acquire the wealth and social position for which he yearned.
  结果，他爱上了她并想和她结婚，这样一来，他就可以得到梦寐以求的财富和社会地位。
• He once yearned so frightfully for that occupation, and it was so welcome when it came;
  他曾经严重地渴望那种职业活动，在它出现时他便非常欢迎。