wistful

adj.

1. 伤感的；（对已不可能发生之事）徒然神往的
   thinking sadly about sth that you would like to have, especially sth in the past that you can no longer have
   1. a wistful smile
      伤感的微笑

1. ADJ-GRADED (因求而不得)失意的，伤感的，惆怅的
   Someone who is wistful is rather sad because they want something and know that they cannot have it.
   1. I can't help feeling slightly wistful about the perks I'm giving up...
      我不禁对自己将要放弃的津贴感到有点儿不舍。
   2. He has a wistful look.
      他神情沮丧。

1. In old age the two men wrote each other wistful letters.
   这两个人晚年时互通信函，诉说怀旧感伤之情。
2. I can't help feeling slightly wistful about the perks I'm giving up
   我不禁对自己将要放弃的津贴感到有点儿不舍。
3. He has a wistful look.
   他神情沮丧。
4. His voice is wistful, as soft as velvet.
   他的惆怅的声音如丝绒般温柔。
5. My friend Emily said she was happy for me, but wistful, too.
   我的朋友埃米莉（Emily）说，她为我高兴，不过也有点惋惜。
6. He looked so wistful as he went away, hearing the frolic and evidently having none of his own.
   他走的时候似乎闷闷不乐，若有所思；他听到你们在玩闹，而显然他自己没什么玩的。
7. These wistful asides are only part of the story, for him and others.
   这些发自内心深处的旁白，就他和别人而言，只是故事的一面。
8. Suddenly it struck me that several of my close friends kept, somewhere in their houses, an image of me dissolving in laughter. I've always preferred a rather wistful, pensive image of myself.
   突然，我醒悟到几个自己的亲密朋友，在她们的家中的某个地方，都有一幅我融于大笑中的画面。
9. I had forgotten. I do not believe admiration and wistful thoughts are against the societal norm.
   看来我是老糊涂了，我忘了赞美和向往也是犯罪。
10. The child stood looking with wistful eyes at the toys in the shop window.
    那个小孩站在那里用渴望的眼神看着商店橱窗里的玩具。
11. Now she sat looking out across the park as wistful and depressed as the nature which craves variety and life can be under such circumstances.
    当她坐在那里看着对面的公园时，正像渴求变化和生命的自然界在这种时刻的情绪一样，她心里充满着企盼和忧愁。
12. Those wistful little ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds.
    那些引人怀念的小广告被失恋的人收藏了起来。
13. While most of us are content to live our lives with little more thana wistful gaze toward the heavens, others have bolder ambitions.
    当我们中的大多数人满足于带着些许渴望飞向天空的眼神生活的时候，有些人立下了更大胆的雄心壮志。
14. Only the angels can do that, and the angels are wise and wistful.
    只有天使能做到。天使聪慧而又不充满渴求。
15. She seems a little wistful.
    她好像有点若有所思的样子。
16. She had a last wistful look at the house.
    她依依不舍地看了屋子最后一眼。
17. He felt wistful and then smiled to himself.
    他感到有些怀念，暗地里还微微一笑。
18. "Don't heave a wistful sigh like this"
    “不要发出一声渴望的叹息就像这样”
19. Miranda felt a wistful longing for the old days.
    米兰达非常怀念昔日时光。
20. In the morning, on opening his eyes, he beheld it regarding him with a wistful and hungry stare.
    早晨，他一睁开眼就觉察到这个畜生盯着他的如饥似渴的眼光。
21. She was a little wistful or sad, and even a little bitter.
    她有点怅惘和哀伤，甚至有点痛苦。
22. His wistful eyes gazing at the shop made this this whole meeting of men so pitiful.
    他渴求的目光盯着那家小店，使得这个庙会如此令人同情。
23. If you are Lady Burnewilke by now, take my letter as a wistful farewell compliment to an unlikely and wonderful love.
    如果你已经是勃纳·诀克夫人了，那么就把我这封信看作是对一场不可能实现的，美好绮丽的恋爱依依不舍的赞美词。
24. But it adds a wistful element to their romance.
    也为他们的爱情加了一份忧郁。
25. His sole reference to Watergate was wistful.
    他对水门事件的唯一反应就是陷入沉思。
26. He died at the end of this wistful and elegiac novel.
    在这本情意绵绵的哀歌式小说的末尾，他结束了一生。
27. The child looked with wistful eyes at the toys in the window.
    小孩看着橱窗里的玩具，眼里露出渴求的神情。
28. The statue has a gentleness, an ambience, a wistful elegance.
    那尊雕像具有一种柔和、一种独特格调、一种忧郁沉思的雅致。
29. I sang her a wistful ballad and strung together some rhymes to amuse her.
    我为她唱起一首恋恋不舍的情歌，把一些同韵的词串在一起，逗她高兴。
30. "I used to go dancing with your father every weekend when we were young," she said with a wistful smile.
    年轻时，我曾和你父亲每周末去跳舞，她带着留恋的微笑说道。

adj

1. showing pensive sadness
   1. the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty

   Synonym:    pensive