Yearn
[jɜːn] or [jɝn]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To pain; to grieve; to vex.
(v. i.) To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
(v. i. & t.) To curdle, as milk.
(v. i.) To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager.
整理:劳埃德
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. Long, be eager, feel a strong desire.
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解釋/意思:
v.i. and v.t. (Shak.) to grieve.
v.i. to curdle as milk—also Earn.—n. Yearn′ing rennet.
v.i. to feel earnest desire: to feel uneasiness as from longing or pity.—n. Yearn′ing earnest desire tenderness or pity.—adj. longing.—adv. Yearn′ingly.
v.t. (Spens.) to earn.
編輯:特鲁迪
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To feel in a dream that you are yearning for the presence of anyone, denotes that you will soon hear comforting tidings from your absent friends. For a young woman to think her lover is yearning for her, she will have the pleasure of soon hearing some one making a long-wished-for proposal. If she lets him know that she is yearning for him, she will be left alone and her longings will grow apace.
編輯:瑞伊
例句/造句/用法:
- It has a charm which, once tasted, a man will yearn to taste again. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- All of us at times yearn for the comfort of an absolute philosophy. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Does not your heart yearn towards her when she pours into your ear her pure, childlike confidences? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Our hearts yearn for the Louvre. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- But it was not so; I was the same in strength, in earnest craving for sympathy, in my yearning for active exertion. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I was conscious that every other sentiment, regret, or passion had by degrees merged into a yearning, clinging affection for them. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The next day however, he felt wistful and yearning. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The desire and yearning of my soul is for an African _nationality_. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- His arms were yearning up to her; but she drew away, and they remained facing each other, divided by the distance that her words had created. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- The next thing he has a strong yearning to see is the spot where the Saviour was crucified. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Was it really only an idea, or was it the interpretation of a profound yearning? 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Everybody was out of town, and I yearned for the glades of the New Forest or the shingle of Southsea. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- It must be played--in went the yearned-for seasoning--thus favoured, I played it with relish. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- But her heart yearned with sad tenderness for all that she was to leave behind. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- She yearned towards the perfect Right, that it might make a throne within her, and rule her errant will. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Margaret yearned after that old house, and the placid tranquillity of that old well-ordered, monotonous life. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- She yearned for the strength which such a change would give,--even for a few hours to be in the midst of that bright life, and to feel young again. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Inclination yearned back to its old, easier custom. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- There is nothing more lovely, to which the heart more yearns than a free-spirited boy, gentle, brave, and generous. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Then the soul of the thirsty one, in so far as he is thirsty, desires only drink; for this he yearns and tries to obtain it? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Don't want any one who yearns to enter a laboratory and experiment. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The machine which exists is accepted in all its essentials: the goo-goo yearns for a somewhat smoother rotation. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Haven't you seen yet, that my heart yearns to make a Christian of you? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
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