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

• 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。
• 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。
• Every man yearns for sympathy in sorrow.
  每个遇到不幸的人都渴望得到同情。
• I guess everyone yearns for love.
  我想每个人都渴望爱情吧。
• One man yearns freedom, long for beauty.
  男人向往自由，渴望美好。
• 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；
• He is what Voldemort yearns to be-immortal!
  这就是为什么伏地魔称他不朽的原因。
• Mr Hu, however, probably yearns for the good old days.
  但胡大概也怀念美好的旧时光吧。
• Every child has a soul which yearns, and carries a longing on his lap and goes to sleep with it, hoping to find that his dream come true when he wakes up with the morn.
  每个小孩子都有一颗思慕的和切望的灵魂，怀着一种热望去睡觉，希望在早晨醒转时发现他的梦想已成为事实。
• Every Chinese suffering from the disasters of the war and fighting for the survival of his nation daily yearns for victory.
  身受战争灾难、为着自己民族的生存而奋斗的每一个中国人，无日不在渴望战争的胜利。