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

• The church's spiritual life must have been polluted by my base yearnings.
  教会中的精神生活肯定被我那种低级的渴望污染了。
• 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。
• 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。
• Certainly the Washington of my memory is shaped by my soul at the time, by its yearnings and losses and hopes, all for other things.
  当然，我对华盛顿的记忆是由我当时的心灵状态，它的向往、它的失却与希望涉及的完全是其他事物形成的。
• "The idea that we can control illness and death with our minds appeals to our deepest yearnings, but it just isn't so," she tells WebMD.
  我们能够控制疾病以及因心情不佳而死的想法反映了我们根深蒂固的愿望，但事实并非如此。
• That we can never be free of yearnings and anxieties.
  我们永远不能免费憧憬和焦虑。
• And then I reached the end, and it turns out that Natasha's brooding artistic yearnings are symptoms of a mental illness for which pregnancy is the cure.
  读到最后我发现，娜塔莎（Natasha）徘徊不去的艺术渴望是一种精神疾病的症状，而怀孕能治这种病。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。