yearn
yearn 英 [jɜ:n] 美 [jɜrn]
vi. 渴望；渴求
进行时:yearning 过去式:yearned 过去分词:yearned 第三人称单数:yearns 名词复数:yearns
- To yearn for something is to want it really bad. You might yearn for freedom or you might yearn for a perfect tamale. Usually you yearn for something or someone you can't easily get.
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- vi. 渴望；渴求
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1. The people yearned for peace.
人民渴望和平。
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2. There was a yearning look in his eyes.
他两眼流露出渴望的神情。
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3. She yearned to escape from her office job.
她一心想着躲避办公室里的工作。
- yearn (v.) Old English giernan (West Saxon), geornan (Mercian), giorna (Northumbrian) "to strive, be eager, desire, seek for, beg, demand," from Proto-Germanic *gernjan (source also of Gothic gairnjan "to desire," German begehren "to desire;" Old High German gern, Old Norse gjarn "desirous," Old English georn "eager, desirous," German gern "gladly, willingly"), from PIE root *gher- (2) "to like, want." Related: Yearned; yearning.
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