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

• What kind of longings are working on her?
  她在渴望什么呢？
• 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 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。
• Rain, gently drop dozen countless for your notes, such as pleading, beg, love and longings!
  雨，轻轻地滴打着无数音符，如对你的倾诉、叩求、热爱和憧憬！
• 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。
• Is is this spirit which made me quit the comfort of my previous life, to experience something more in concordance with my deep longings, first, on the road, and today, in China.
  这个想法也是我放弃以前舒适生活的原因，这使我深层的渴望和我的人生更加的协调，先是在路上旅行，而如今则是呆在中国。
• 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。
• The foundation behind the practice of Yoga, or meditation proper, is the resolution of conflicts and fulfilment of all longings to the utmost extent until one reaches infinity itself.
  瑜伽，或正确的冥想，在它练习存在的背后，基础是冲突的化解和追求终极的意识延伸直至达到无限自我的这一唯一的目标的实现。
• 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。
• Appetite is the keenness of living; it is one of the senses that tells you that you are still curious to exist, that you stillhave an edge on your longings and want to bite into the world and taste its multitudinous flavours and juices.
  食欲是对生存的强烈渴望；这一咸官告诉你，你对生存仍有好奇心，你和欲望和期待仍很旺盛，依然希望咀嚼这大千世界，品尝它五花八门的风味和甜汁儿。