yearn

verb

1. 渴望；渴求
   to want sth very much, especially when it is very difficult to get
   1. The people yearned for peace.
      人民渴望和平。
   2. There was a yearning look in his eyes.
      他两眼流露出渴望的神情。
   3. She yearned to escape from her office job.
      她一心想着躲避办公室里的工作。

1. VERB 渴望;渴求;向往
   If someone yearns for something 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。

1. If you do yearn for chocolate, try a carob bar instead.
   你要是非常想吃巧克力，那就嚼根角豆条解馋吧。
2. He yearned for freedom
   他渴望自由。
3. I yearned to be a movie actor.
   我曾渴望成为一名电影演员。
4. This mentalist yearn easily trigger a large-scale consumption campaign.
   这种心态容易引发一场大规模消费高潮。
5. Is it not in the nature of all human beings to yearn for freedom?
   渴望自由不是人类的天性吗？
6. Other research has shed light on why we often yearn to get back together with a lost love.
   另一项研究发现了为何我们总是希望和旧爱复合。
7. They live because they love, hate, cherish, yearn, despise and embrace.
   它们活着是因为他们会爱、会恨、会珍惜、会向往，会鄙视以及会拥抱。
8. It made me yearn for South Korea, dreaming of meeting such a man.
   这让我对韩国心生渴望，梦想着遇见这样的一个男人。
9. You yearn for freedom and self-employment attracts you powerfully.
   你向往自由，自由职业深深地吸引着你。
10. Could you realize that even though you're out of my sight you could never out of my yearn;
    你可知道你能够走出我的视野却永远走不出我对你殷殷的思念；
11. When you see the cloud in the sky, it means I yearn for you.
    当你看到天空的云时，那就表示我渴望见到你。
12. We yearn endlessly for the things money famously cannot buy: love, friendship, joy.
    我们无限渴望那些著名的金钱买不到的东西：爱、友谊、快乐。
13. For other men, I yearn.
    对于别的男人，我渴望；
14. We yearn for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives.
    我们渴求生活中的美、真和意义。
15. I hope you won't either let down my yearn.
    你也不要辜负了我的思量。
16. I am an injured angel of a heart, yearn for the paradise.
    我是心受了伤的天使，向往天堂。
17. How much I yearn for.
    我是多么的向往。
18. We all yearn to be cosseted.
    我们都渴望被人宠爱。
19. When you grieve, they will yearn to comfort you.
    当你悲痛时，人们会尽力安慰你；
20. I yearn for the soaring, but I do not have the wing.
    我向往飞翔，但是我没有翅膀。
21. How I yearn those happy days together with you!
    好怀念和你在一起那段开心的日子。
22. Can let what eulogize and yearn for one party common people is permanent!
    能让一方百姓永久传颂和怀念的！
23. If there is one thing one can always yearn for and sometimes attain, it is human love.
    如果有一件东西可以永远渴望，而且有时能够得到的东西，那就是人类的爱。
24. It is all I know, all I yearn for, and all that I live for.
    是我所知道的全部，所渴望的全部以及为之生活的全部。
25. Sometimes I just yearn to be alone.
    有时我只是渴望一人独处。
26. Yearn for the happy life of freedom, will not give up to the pursuit in the beautiful future!
    向往自由幸福生活，不会放弃对美好未来的追求！
27. How can you treat me like a child Yet like a child I yearn for you?
    你怎么能像对待一个小孩那样对我，然后事实上我也是像个小孩一样想念你。
28. I like lonely, lonely hate it, I yearn for a lively, but most fear lively.
    我喜欢孤独，却又痛恨孤独，我向往着热闹，却最害怕热闹。
29. I am reading an article about Nuremberg in Germany which makes me yearn for it.
    这些天我读了一篇关于德国纽伦堡市的文章，对纽伦堡市充满了向往之情。
30. We yearn for a happy life, happiness is our aim.
    我们向往幸福的生活，幸福才是我们的目的。

  yearn crave desire long pine【导航词义：渴望】

  yearn v. 〈文〉渴望，向往

〔辨析〕尤指渴望得到很难得到的事物，或做难以如愿之事，常伴有些许不安或痛苦。

  crave v. 〈书〉渴望，热望

〔辨析〕指非常强烈、几乎无法控制地渴望某事物，有时甚至是不好的事物。

  desire v. 〈正式〉渴望，期望

〔辨析〕强调主观愿望上热切渴望某事物，多指可以达成的事情，常含尽力争取的意味，不用进行时。

  long v. 渴望，极想

〔辨析〕普通用词，尤指渴望看似不会很快发生的事发生，常后接介词 for 或动词不定式。

  pine for phr. v. 渴望

〔辨析〕尤指渴望得到不太可能得到的事物，含苦苦思念之意。

verb

1. have affection for

2. have a desire for something or someone who is not present
   1. She ached for a cigarette
   2. I am pining for my lover

   Synonym:    acheyenpinelanguish

3. desire strongly or persistently

   Synonym:    hankerlong