yearn
yearn 英 [jɜ:n] 美 [jɜrn]
vi. 渴望，向往；思念，想念；怀念
进行时:yearning 过去式:yearned 过去分词:yearned 第三人称单数:yearns 名词复数:yearns
- To yearn for something is to want it really bad. You might yearn for freedom or you might yearn for a perfect tamale. Usually you yearn for something or someone you can't easily get.
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- vi. 渴望，向往；思念，想念；怀念
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1. The man who has everything is in some way is a poor man. He will never know what it feels like to yearn, to hope, to nourish his soul with the dream of something better.
一个拥有一切的人在某些方面也是个穷人，他永远不会知道什么是渴望、什么是期待；永远不知道用渴求更美好的东西来充实他的灵魂。
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2. Yet we all yearn for that deep connection with others, those moments of bliss, joy, completeness.
然而，我们都渴望与别人深入的交往, 渴望那些幸福、快乐、圆满的时刻。
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3. There is nothing mysterious about this; in every aspect of life, we yearn for things to be regular and parallel.
这点没有任何神秘的；生活中的每一方面，我们都渴望事物是有规律和对等的。
- yearn (v.) Old English giernan (West Saxon), geornan (Mercian), giorna (Northumbrian) "to strive, be eager, desire, seek for, beg, demand," from Proto-Germanic *gernjan (source also of 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- (2) "to like, want." Related: Yearned; yearning.
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