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

• But the most shocking truth is this: Almighty God yearns to be your Friend!
  但最令人震撼的事是一全能的神渴望成为你的好朋友！
• Yearns to hear from you when you're away.
  渴望收到你的消息，当你离开的时候。
• Just as every American boy yearns to be a football quarter-back, so girls yearn to head the cheerleading squad, amidst vicious real-life rivalry.
  正像每个美国男孩儿都想成为美式足球场上的四分卫一样，每个女孩儿也都渴望在怀有恶意的真实竞争中，成为啦啦队队长。
• Now living in Iowa, Kimber yearns for a place that offers that same convivial atmosphere.
  现在居住在爱荷华州，金伯渴望这里也有一个地方能够提供同样的欢乐气氛。
• 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；
• 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。
• I am a space laminar flow cloud, yearns for the unrestrained freedom!
  我是天上一片流云，向往无拘无束的自由！
• He yearns for order and paints out of necessity;
  他渴望规律，在贫穷的处境中作画；
• Thou canst not think, said the minister, glancing aside at Hester Prynne, how my heart dreads this interview, and yearns for it!
  你难以想象，牧师说着，偏过头来瞥了一眼海丝特白兰，我又害怕这次见面，又盼着这次见面的那种心理！
• Our country yearns for reform.
  俄罗斯渴望的是改革。