wistfulness

1. But aides say they detect a bit of wistfulness in his voice.
   但助手说他们察觉到他声音里一丝愁闷。
2. Over the last half century, we Americans have come to create and consume automatically and continuously a kind of recent-past wistfulness.
   在上个世纪的下半叶，我们美国人无意识地创造与消费着对不久前的过去的怅惘之中，并且持续不断地处于这种状态。
3. But manned space flight in America is now in mothballs, and in these dispirited times even the pride visitors take in the dam is mingled with wistfulness.
   但是美国载人航天飞行现已搁置，而且在这些委靡的时期，连游客对大坝的骄傲也参杂着哀思。
4. She had been troubled in a way by doubt and longing, but these had made no deeper impression than could be traced in a certain open wistfulness of glance and speech.
   一层淡淡的疑虑和渴望困扰着她，但这些只是使她的目光和话语带上了一种企盼的表情。

noun

1. a sadly pensive longing