yearned

英 [jɜːnd]

美 [jɜːrnd]

v.  渴望; 渴求
yearn的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 渴望;渴求;向往
  If someoneyearns forsomething that they are unlikely to get, they want it very much.
  1. He yearned for freedom...
     他渴望自由。
  2. I yearned to be a movie actor.
     我曾渴望成为一名电影演员。

双语例句

• I yearned to be a movie actor.
  我曾渴望成为一名电影演员。
• All That Is yearned to release them and sought within itself for the means to do so.
  一切全有渴望释放它们而在其自身寻找这样做的方法。
• I will take you love your footprints to recover as we have long yearned for freedom.
  我将带着你的爱追随着你的足迹走向我们向往以久的自由。
• Her heart yearned for the starving children.
  她可怜那些饥饿的孩子们。
• He, like others, yearned for the enjoyment of whatever he saw enjoyable.
  他象别人那样，渴望欣赏不论什么他看到的可以欣赏的东西。
• But as a teenager I yearned for heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter.
  而正值豆蔻年华的我却渴望母女间有一种推心置腹的倾心交谈。
• Every time I walked by the phone, I yearned to call.
  每次经过电话机旁，我都禁不住想打电话给你。
• Never stopped Diana from striving to show the world the love that she herself yearned for.
  从未终止她向世人散播爱心的努力，这份爱正是她所渴望获得的。
• How he yearned for her whenever they were separated.
  每当他们分离时，他是多么强烈地思念着她啊。
• We yearned for beauty, truth and meaning in our lives.
  我们渴望生活中有美、真理和意义。