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

• I guess everyone yearns for love.
  我想每个人都渴望爱情吧。
• 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！
• Offscreen, he admits that he likes kids very much himself, he yearns for marriage.
  戏外的他坦言自己很喜欢小孩，也渴望婚姻。
• I overhear that the hearty man heartily yearns for my harness in the barn.
  我无意中听说那个热忱的人十分向往我的牲口棚中的马具。
• Man is the only creature on earth that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
  人类是地球上唯一寻求超越自我，并热衷于追求不可能的目标的生物。
• 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。
• She yearns to visit the village where she was born.
  她热切盼望能去她出生的那个村子看看。
• He yearns for order and paints out of necessity;
  他渴望规律，在贫穷的处境中作画；
• 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！