Wistful
['wɪs(t)fʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['wɪstfl]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Longing; wishful; desirous.
(a.) Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Contemplative, meditative, reflective, musing, thoughtful, pensive.[2]. Longing, eager, WISHFUL.
編輯:史蒂夫
解釋/意思:
adj. hushed: full of thought: thoughtful: earnest: eager wishful longing.—adv. Wist′fully.—n. Wist′fulness.—adv. Wist′ly (Shak.) silently earnestly.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Tarzan shook his head, and an expression of wistful and pathetic longing sobered his laughing eyes. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Gerald's father had looked wistful, to break the heart: but not this last terrible look of cold, mute Matter. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The title gave him a sudden start, too; and he could not avoid casting a wistful glance round the room. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The next day however, he felt wistful and yearning. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Before quite leaving her he threw upon her face a wistful glance, as if he had misgivings on the generosity of forsaking her thus. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I ordered him to set me down, and lifting up one of my sashes, cast many a wistful melancholy look towards the sea. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- His eyes looked at me again with the painful expression of inquiry, so wistful, so vacant, so miserably helpless to see. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The sharpness in her eye turned to a wistful longing as she met Margaret's soft and friendly gaze. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- His dim watery eyes were fixed on my face with an expression of vacant and wistful inquiry very painful to see. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The old man clasped the skirt of his long coat with his disengaged hand, and directed a wistful look at Fledgeby. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It was Juliet herself; pale and trembling she stood, a lamp in her hand, on the threshold of the dungeon, looking at me with wistful countenance. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Frederick held her hand in his, and looked with wistful anxiety into her face, reading there more care and trouble than she would betray by words. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- You are so changed, I sometimes think-- there Amy stopped, with a half-timid, half-wistful look, more significant than her unfinished speech. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I turned a wistful eye towards the old gentleman who had left me. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- If you rouse her or scold her, she gives you a look, half wistful, half reckless, which sends you away as queer and crazed as herself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- If her wistful cast of physiognomy is not gone, no more is her careless smile. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Only, when she thinks I am not about to see her, her face grows very sad, and, oh, so wistful. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- I used to find it so,' answered Mr Boffin, with a wistful look. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He looked so wistful as he went away, hearing the frolic and evidently having none of his own. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
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