hankering

英 [ˈhæŋkərɪŋ]

美 [ˈhæŋkərɪŋ]

n.  (对或做某事的)强烈欲望
v.  渴望，渴求(某事物)
hanker的现在分词

现在分词：hankering　

GRE

BNC.35868 / COCA.33521

牛津词典

noun

• （对或做某事的）强烈欲望
  a strong desire
  1. a hankering for a wealthy lifestyle
     渴望过富裕生活

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 渴望;热望
  Ahankering forsomething is a desire or longing for it.
  1. From time to time we all get a hankering for something a little different...
     我们每个人偶尔都会渴望有点变化。
  2. Have you always had a hankering to be an actress?
     你是否一直渴望成为一名演员？

英英释义

noun

• a yearning for something or to do something
  Synonym:yen

双语例句

• He has been hankering to spend an evening talking with you.
  他一直渴望能找一天跟你谈一晚。
• I've got a hankering for Chinese food tonight.
  今晚我想去吃中餐。
• Our company really believes that quality is the all, and the customer's satisfaction is just our hankering.
  我们公司全体员工始终坚信质量才是根本，顾客满意的微笑就是我们内心的喜悦。
• Detachment, buddy, and only detachment, desirelessness, cessation from all hankering.
  超然，巴蒂，唯一的超然，无欲无求，所有的渴望欲望停止。
• I'm rather impatient with writers who spend their time hankering after the past.
  那些把时间都花在怀恋过去的作家令我感到很不耐烦。
• The objective of hydrocarbon traps exploration is hankering for maximum pr of it.
  油气圈闭勘探以追求最小投入和最大利润为目的。
• But the reader is left hankering to know what Mr Garton Ash thinks about the mess that has succeeded it.
  但读者们想了解加顿•阿什对于政权更迭之后的乱局有何见解的渴望却未得到满足。
• And his strongly hankering for art.
  对诗歌艺术美的强烈追求。
• What kind of life are hankering for?
  你到底想要一种什么生活方式？
• Problem is, once you are used to life's finest, that hankering can be hard to satisfy.
  问题是，一旦习惯了最豪华的生活，要想再上一层楼会十分困难。