yearn
英 [j??n]
美[j?n]
- vi. 渴望，向往；思念，想念；懷念；同情，憐憫
CET6+TEM4IELTSGRECET6常用詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?yearns;過(guò)去式:?yearned;過(guò)去分詞:?yearned;現(xiàn)在分詞:?yearning;
助記提示
1. y -> why + earn => yearn: 為何掙錢如此的令人向往、令人渴望。
中文詞源
yearn 渴望
來(lái)自PIE*gher,喜歡，想要，鼓勵(lì)，詞源同exhort,hortatory,charisma.
英文詞源
- yearn
- yearn: see eucharist
- yearn (v.)
- Old English giernan (West Saxon), geornan (Mercian), giorna (Northumbrian) "to strive, be eager, desire, seek for, beg, demand," from Proto-Germanic *gernjan (cognates: Gothic gairnjan "to desire," German begehren "to desire;" Old High German gern, Old Norse gjarn "desirous," Old English georn "eager, desirous," German gern "gladly, willingly"), from PIE root *gher- (5) "to like, want" (see hortatory). Related: Yearned; yearning.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. If you do yearn for chocolate, try a carob bar instead.
- 你要是非常想吃巧克力，那就嚼根角豆條解饞吧。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. This mentalist yearn easily trigger a large - scale consumption campaign.
- 這種心態(tài)容易引發(fā)一場(chǎng)大規(guī)模消費(fèi)高潮.
來(lái)自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 3. Is it not in the nature of all human beings to yearn for freedom?
- 渴望自由不是人類的天性 嗎 ?
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 4. We yearn to surrender our entire being.
- 我們渴望著放縱我們整個(gè)的生命.
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 5. Do not yearn in desire toward it , but wait till it reaches you.
- 你不能欲望中燒,按捺不住, 只能靜候它的到來(lái).
來(lái)自辭典例句