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；
• 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。
• That we can never be free of yearnings and anxieties.
  我们永远不能免费憧憬和焦虑。
• Growing research suggests that odd food yearnings and food aversions may protect the fetus.
  越来越多的研究表明对一些奇怪食物的偏好和厌恶可能是出于保护胎儿的缘故。
• 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。
• 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。
• Such fantastic pictures of future society, painted at a time when the proletariat is still in a very undeveloped state and has but a fantastic conception of its own position correspond with the first instinctive yearnings of that class for a general reconstruction of society.
  这种对未来社会的幻想的描绘，是在无产阶级还很不发展、因而对本身的地位的认识还基于幻想的时候，同无产阶级对社会普遍改造的最初的本能的渴望相适应的。
• You're never too young to feel the yearnings of love, but you need to be grown up enough to handle the responsibility and emotional turmoil that can accompany it.
  并不是说你因为年龄小就不能感受爱，而是说你需要长大了才能应付那些责任和感情骚动而处理好这些事情。
• Through these patterns and images, people express jubilation, good luck, and blessings; in them they entrust their hopes and yearnings for a good life.
  人们通过这样图案形象，传达了喜庆、吉祥如意和祝福之意，又寄托了对美好生活的向往和憧憬。
• In his works," death "does not necessarily mean" the end of life ". It symbolizes his yearnings for the unrealistic world, which gives people sweet fantasy.
  在三岛的作品里，“死亡”并不意味着生的终结，而是对非现实世界的憧憬，令人产生一种甘美的幻想；