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

• In Chinese minds, the moon is associated with gentleness and brightness, expressing the beautiful yearnings of the Chinese.
  在中国人心里，月亮总是与温柔明亮这些词联系在一起的，这样的联想表达了中国人美好的祈望。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• His poems are full of unfulfilled yearnings and desires.
  他的诗中充满了对未实现心愿的企盼和渴望。
• Indeed, yearnings are positive feelings;
  的确，渴望是一种积极的情感；
• Growing research suggests that odd food yearnings and food aversions may protect the fetus.
  越来越多的研究表明对一些奇怪食物的偏好和厌恶可能是出于保护胎儿的缘故。
• 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。
• 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。
• Crumbling markets, huge layoffs and widespread financial panic have unleashed a giant wave of creative yearnings.
  变得颤颤微微的市场，大量下岗还有大面积惊恐已经释放了一个创造力渴求的巨大浪潮。