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

• People have yearned for change in this country.
  人民渴望这个国家能有真正的改变。
• All at once I pictured my own father, patiently enduring my nightly accordion practice sessions though he must have yearned for peace and quiet after his long days at the pizza factory.
  突然，我想起了我的父亲。虽然他在比萨厂呆了一整天后一定非常渴望清静，但还是耐心地忍受着我每天晚上练习手风琴的那段时间。
• 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。
• He, like others, yearned for the enjoyment of whatever he saw enjoyable.
  他象别人那样，渴望欣赏不论什么他看到的可以欣赏的东西。
• 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。
• He yearned for romance and beauty and love.
  他向往着浪漫，美丽和爱情。
• 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。
• All That Is yearned to release them and sought within itself for the means to do so.
  一切全有渴望释放它们而在其自身寻找这样做的方法。
• He closed his eyes and let himself sink into the half-sleep for which his body yearned.
  他闭上了眼睛，让自己坠入他身体所渴望的半睡眠状态。