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

• Most passionate people who follow their life longings are happy and fulfilled individuals.
  大部分追寻自己生活梦想的热情的人都快乐满足。
• 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。
• Freedom from desire is not the freedom I want. I want the freedom to fulfil my longings.
  免除欲望并非我想要的自由。我想要的是满足渴望的自由。
• But once in a great while the longings of these two generations come together in a way we never really understand.
  难得的是两代的渴望有时会结合在一起，那是我们不曾了解的。
• Only a short distance away, German soldiers were listening to the same song, sharing our loneliness and longings.
  仅仅咫尺之遥的地方，德国士兵也正在收听这同一首歌曲，和我们一同感受着孤独与渴望。
• I don't forget my own longings which heartily resisted the pronouncement of Justice Holmes, which I read as an undergraduate, that certainty generally is illusion and repose is not our destiny.
  我并没有忘记自己曾经有过的渴望，当时我还是一个本科学生，一面阅读着霍尔姆斯大法官的书，一面拼命抵制着他的宣教。
• Come and see that Jesus is more than enough for you and all your needs and longings.
  这样你就会明白，主耶稣是你的全部，是你的全部所需和全部渴慕。
• Is is this spirit which made me quit the comfort of my previous life, to experience something more in concordance with my deep longings, first, on the road, and today, in China.
  这个想法也是我放弃以前舒适生活的原因，这使我深层的渴望和我的人生更加的协调，先是在路上旅行，而如今则是呆在中国。
• Life was bearable, without happiness, without grief. So, what you can't wave away is those expectations, secrets, longings, joys and sorrows, as well as ups and downs.
  这种生活也还是可以过下去的，没有欢喜，也没有悲哀。所以，你挥之不去，那时的期盼，秘密，憧憬，悲与喜，真真切切的起落。
• You have sung to me in my aloneness, and I of your longings have built a tower in the sky.
  你们在我的孤寂中为我歌唱，而我，在空中为你们的渴望建起一座楼阁。