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

• Special programs depicting Beijing's progress in its preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games and its residents 'enthusiastic participation and earnest yearnings will be filmed and shown on television.
  拍摄、播放反映北京筹办2008年奥运会进展情况和市民热情参与、喜盼奥运的专题节目；
• That we can never be free of yearnings and anxieties.
  我们永远不能免费憧憬和焦虑。
• With the elegant sentiment and variable models, the Chinese export porcelain gave the European society at that time a brand-new view of matters and a sort of yearnings for brighter lives.
  中国外销瓷以其精致优雅的情调和富有变化的造型，给予当时欧洲世界一个全新的看待事物的视角和对幸福生活的憧憬。
• For many, the yearnings of their spiritual nature are expressed by church or synagogue membership.
  许多人是通过教堂或参加宗教组织来表达他们的精神上的渴望。
• They felt strong yearnings toward home.
  他们封家乡有着强烈的思念之情。
• 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。
• 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；
• It is seeking the deepest yearnings of God's heart for us and for our group or congragation.
  它是寻求神内心深处对我们或者信徒们最殷切的期望。
• 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。
• 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。