hankering

noun

1. （对或做某事的）强烈欲望
   a strong desire
   1. a hankering for a wealthy lifestyle
      渴望过富裕生活

1. N-COUNT 渴望;热望
   A hankering for something is a desire or longing for it.
   1. From time to time we all get a hankering for something a little different...
      我们每个人偶尔都会渴望有点变化。
   2. Have you always had a hankering to be an actress?
      你是否一直渴望成为一名演员？

1. From time to time we all get a hankering for something a little different
   我们每个人偶尔都会渴望有点变化。
2. Have you always had a hankering to be an actress?
   你是否一直渴望成为一名演员？
3. If you have a consistent opportunity to report your progress on projects, you may have less of a hankering for praise, says Bruce Tulgan, a new haven, Conn.-based consultant and author of not everyone gets a trophy.
   如果你定期有机会汇报项目进展，或许就不会那么渴望获得表扬，康涅狄格州纽海文咨询师《不是人人都能夺冠》（NotEveryoneGetsaTrophy）的作者布鲁斯•塔尔干表示。
4. It has been said that romance is dead in the modern age but our hearts are still hankering for it, it seems.
   有人说现代早已没有真正的浪漫，但我们似乎依然拥有一颗追求浪漫的心。
5. It claims demand has increased steadily since its inception in 2011, particularly for students hankering for placements in banking, finance, law, marketing and technology companies in New York and Los Angeles.
   该公司宣称，自从2011年创立以来，需求一直稳步上升，尤其受到那些向往在纽约和洛杉矶的银行、金融机构、律所、市场营销机构以及科技企业实习的学生欢迎。
6. Problem is, once you are used to life's finest, that hankering can be hard to satisfy.
   问题是，一旦习惯了最豪华的生活，要想再上一层楼会十分困难。
7. If you happen to find yourself in the Big Apple with a hankering for delicious borscht, be sure to take yourself to the Carnegie Deli.
   如果你恰好在大苹果（纽约的别称）寻觅美味的罗宋汤，一定要去卡内基熟食店。
8. Unfortunately, after a while, you would become accustomed to the great food and the no-hassle travel, and you would be hankering for something even better.
   不幸的是，用不了多久，你就会吃腻了珍馐美味，厌倦了专属的旅行，这时候你将开始向往那些好上加好的东西了。
9. But if you're hankering to escape the crowds this summer, encounter new worlds and come back with a tale, think about some of these destinations.
   可是，如果你渴望躲开夏季的人潮，遇见全新的世界，带着传奇归来，那就考虑一下这几个地方吧。
10. Thanks to its tropical climate, zoo-wrecking hurricanes and a greater-than-usual number of people with a hankering for fashionably exotic pets, Florida is an invasive-species mecca.
    由于地处热带，而且飓风让动物园面目全非，再加上一大帮珍禽异兽的狂热粉丝，佛罗里达成了这些外来物种的“圣城”。
11. Most of us have a hankering for the good things on both sides of the line.
    我们中间大部分人都热切盼望两方面的好东西。
12. But the reader is left hankering to know what Mr Garton Ash thinks about the mess that has succeeded it.
    但读者们想了解加顿•阿什对于政权更迭之后的乱局有何见解的渴望却未得到满足。
13. My husband has been hankering after a new car for a long time.
    我的老公一直渴望拥有一部新车。
14. Somewhere along the line in one damn incarnation or another, if you like, you not only had a hankering to be an actor or an actress, but to be a good one. You're stuck with it now.
    在线路的某个地方，在化身或其他东西里，如果你想要，你不仅能渴望成为一个演员，也能成为一个出色的演员，你想现在是被困住了。
15. All the featured projects not only indicate people's hankering to fashion and new trend, but also supply people with the exact demand of dining environment.
    此书中介绍的设计作品不仅体现了人们对时尚和潮流的追求，同时也满足了他们对于就餐环境品质的向往。
16. He has been hankering to spend an evening talking with you.
    他一直渴望能找一天跟你谈一晚。
17. If you give way to this hankering for food you will become fat.
    如果让步于贪食。你会发胖的。
18. Ever since then I've had a hankering to be a fruit grower.
    从那时起，我就渴望成为一个果农。
19. He actually got the job he was hankering after* as art director.
    他最后得到了他梦寐以求的艺术指导的工作。
20. I've got a hankering for Chinese food tonight.
    今晚我想去吃中餐。
21. Detachment, buddy, and only detachment, desirelessness, cessation from all hankering.
    超然，巴蒂，唯一的超然，无欲无求，所有的渴望欲望停止。
22. I'm rather impatient with writers who spend their time hankering after the past.
    那些把时间都花在怀恋过去的作家令我感到很不耐烦。
23. What kind of life are hankering for?
    你到底想要一种什么生活方式？
24. Those days are gone and there's no point hankering after them.
    那些日子一去不复返了，再想得到它们是毫无道理的。
25. I got a real hankering.
    我真的很想吃嘛。
26. Our company really believes that quality is the all, and the customer's satisfaction is just our hankering.
    我们公司全体员工始终坚信质量才是根本，顾客满意的微笑就是我们内心的喜悦。
27. The objective of hydrocarbon traps exploration is hankering for maximum pr of it.
    油气圈闭勘探以追求最小投入和最大利润为目的。
28. It is no doubt that hankering for the minimum economic cost or the maximum economic profit is an unfailing loyalty for any competitor.
    在市场经济的大搏杀中，追求经济成本最小化或经济利润最大化无疑是经济生活中亘古不变的话题，这势必要求人们尤其是决策者不得不面对大量客观存在的不确定性。
29. And his strongly hankering for art.
    对诗歌艺术美的强烈追求。

noun

1. a yearning for something or to do something

   Synonym:    yen