yearnings

英 [ˈjɜːnɪŋz]

美 [ˈjɜrnɪŋz]

n.  渴望; 向往
yearning的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 渴望;强烈愿望;向往
  Ayearningfor something is a very strong desire for it.
  1. He spoke of his yearning for another child...
     他说起了自己想再要一个孩子的强烈愿望。
  2. He always had a yearning to be a schoolteacher.
     他一直渴望当老师。

双语例句

• Indeed, yearnings are positive feelings;
  的确，渴望是一种积极的情感；
• With the elegant sentiment and variable models, the Chinese export porcelain gave the European society at that time a brand-new view of matters and a sort of yearnings for brighter lives.
  中国外销瓷以其精致优雅的情调和富有变化的造型，给予当时欧洲世界一个全新的看待事物的视角和对幸福生活的憧憬。
• Yearnings for love, feelings of compassion, or even religious devotion accompany this time period.
  对爱情的向往、悲悯的感受，或对信仰的热爱都会在这段时间出现。
• Trans students point out that they're doing exactly what these schools encourage: breaking gender barriers, fulfilling their deepest yearnings and forging ahead even when society tries to hold them back.
  跨性别学生们指出，他们做的正是这些学院所鼓励的：打破性别藩篱，实现内心深处的愿望，不顾社会羁绊而奋勇向前。
• It is seeking the deepest yearnings of God's heart for us and for our group or congragation.
  它是寻求神内心深处对我们或者信徒们最殷切的期望。
• That we can never be free of yearnings and anxieties.
  我们永远不能免费憧憬和焦虑。
• Crumbling markets, huge layoffs and widespread financial panic have unleashed a giant wave of creative yearnings.
  变得颤颤微微的市场，大量下岗还有大面积惊恐已经释放了一个创造力渴求的巨大浪潮。
• Special programs depicting Beijing's progress in its preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games and its residents 'enthusiastic participation and earnest yearnings will be filmed and shown on television.
  拍摄、播放反映北京筹办2008年奥运会进展情况和市民热情参与、喜盼奥运的专题节目；
• You have to discard your yearnings for the profane world once you become a monk.
  一入禅门，你要抛却自己对于尘世的眷恋。
• Although they were physically intimate on a regular basis, Harriet was increasingly conscious of inchoate desires, of unappeased yearnings, the source of which she could not quite pin down.
  尽管他们常有身体上的的亲昵行为，但哈莉特还是隐约感到有种愈来愈强、扼制不住的欲望没有得到满足。