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to want something very much, especially when it is very difficult to get 渴望；渴求 - yearn (for something/somebody)
The people yearned for peace. 人民渴望和平。 🔊🔊 There was a yearning look in his eyes. 他两眼流露出渴望的神情。 🔊🔊 She yearned for children of her own. 她渴望有自己的孩子。 - yearn to do something
She yearned to escape from her office job. 她一心想着躲避办公室里的工作。 🔊🔊 I’ve always yearned to go stock car racing. 我一直渴望能去参加改装车赛。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- secretly
- desperately
- still
- …
- after
- for
Word OriginOld English giernan, from a Germanic base meaning ‘eager’.- yearn (for something/somebody)