longings

英 [ˈlɒŋɪŋz]

美 [ˈlɔŋɪŋz]

n.  (对…的)渴望，热望
longing的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 渴望；热望；憧憬
  If you feellongingor alonging forsomething, you have a rather sad feeling because you want it very much.
  1. He felt a longing for the familiar...
     他渴望找到知交。
  2. Imelda spoke of her longing to return home...
     伊美尔达说她期望能够回家。
  3. I was overwhelmed with longing for those innocent days of early childhood.
     我内心充满着对纯真的童年时光的怀念。

双语例句

• Old longings nomadic leap, chafing at customs chain again from its brumal sleep wakens the ferine strain.
  长久以来的渴望不时闪动，因为世俗的羁绊而怒火中烧，将再次从冬眠中唤醒那野生的天性。
• But once in a great while the longings of these two generations come together in a way we never really understand.
  难得的是两代的渴望有时会结合在一起，那是我们不曾了解的。
• The oceangoing steamers... roused in him wild and painful longings
  出海的汽船.在他心中激起了狂热且痛苦的渴望
• I yelled almost in despair, I'd had such idealistic longings for that girl in that past year and had conscience-stricken hours wondering if I should seduce her because she was so young and all.
  我几乎绝望地叫喊，在那去年我对这女郎是有着理想主义式的渴望及内疚的时刻（因她实在太年轻了，不知道应否诱惑她）。
• He may have been in the father's house but he never shared in the longings of the father's heart over the younger son.
  他虽然一直住在父的家中，却从没有明白父亲的心，没有分担父亲挂念弟弟的痛苦。
• I know your longings and I have heard your frequent sighs.
  我认得你的愿望，我听得了你屡发的叹息。
• Nobler thoughts and nobler longings were throbbing through my brain.
  更高尚的思想和渴望在头脑中冲荡。
• I don't forget my own longings which heartily resisted the pronouncement of Justice Holmes, which I read as an undergraduate, that certainty generally is illusion and repose is not our destiny.
  我并没有忘记自己曾经有过的渴望，当时我还是一个本科学生，一面阅读着霍尔姆斯大法官的书，一面拼命抵制着他的宣教。
• What kind of longings are working on her?
  她在渴望什么呢？
• The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand atiptoe to peep at the heaven.
  群树如表示大地的愿望似的，踮起脚来向天空窥望。