longings

英 [ˈlɒŋɪŋz]

美 [ˈlɔŋɪŋz]

n.  (对…的)渴望，热望
longing的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 渴望；热望；憧憬
  If you feellongingor alonging forsomething, you have a rather sad feeling because you want it very much.
  1. He felt a longing for the familiar...
     他渴望找到知交。
  2. Imelda spoke of her longing to return home...
     伊美尔达说她期望能够回家。
  3. I was overwhelmed with longing for those innocent days of early childhood.
     我内心充满着对纯真的童年时光的怀念。

双语例句

• The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand a-tiptoe to peep at the heaven.
  1群树好像表达大地的愿望似的，跷脚站着，向天空窥望。
• E has lived in a vacuum for eighteen years, cloyed by the representative and unique longings of any youth.
  他离群独处生活了18年，腻味了年轻人那一套典型而独特的向往和追求。
• The oceangoing steamers... roused in him wild and painful longings
  出海的汽船.在他心中激起了狂热且痛苦的渴望
• Freedom from desire is not the freedom I want. I want the freedom to fulfil my longings.
  免除欲望并非我想要的自由。我想要的是满足渴望的自由。
• I paint you and fashion you ever with my love longings.
  我永远用爱恋的渴望来描画你。
• Is is this spirit which made me quit the comfort of my previous life, to experience something more in concordance with my deep longings, first, on the road, and today, in China.
  这个想法也是我放弃以前舒适生活的原因，这使我深层的渴望和我的人生更加的协调，先是在路上旅行，而如今则是呆在中国。
• Draw upon your deepest longings to pull together an idyllic concept of yourself with all the detail possible.
  借鉴你们那最深切的渴望，将你们自己田园诗般的概念聚在一起，并且细节尽可能详尽。
• I don't forget my own longings which heartily resisted the pronouncement of Justice Holmes, which I read as an undergraduate, that certainty generally is illusion and repose is not our destiny.
  我并没有忘记自己曾经有过的渴望，当时我还是一个本科学生，一面阅读着霍尔姆斯大法官的书，一面拼命抵制着他的宣教。
• I shall have no time to waste in regrets or longings; there is too much to see.
  我没有时间浪费在后悔或渴望中，有太多的东西要看。
• The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand atiptoe to peep at the heaven.
  群树如表示大地的愿望似的，踮起脚来向天空窥望。