WANTa strong feeling of wanting something or someone 渴望,盼望
She looked back with longing on the good old days.
她回首往事,怀念着过去的美好时光。
longing for
His heart was filled with longing for Cynthia.
他心中对辛西娅充满渴望。
longing to
She felt a longing to throw herself into his arms.
她有一种扑入他怀抱的渴望。
Examples from the Corpus
longing• She had a suddendesperatelonging to relive last night - at least, the part up until when they had said goodnight.• The piece lacks the desperate longing of the composer's other works.• Gentlelongings, spoken in such plain and honest words, must not be permitted to remain unanswered.• Weasel, whipped in a taut ball of his longinglicked Hilde's obstinate body with yellowgazes.• Surely, there is nothing unusual about our own inchoatelongings.• Other people can not fill the innerlonging for recognition that is sought.• She could have wept for the agony of rawlonging that burned through her.• But men can come to terms with their suppressedlongings.• For a moment, she ached with longing - then, just as suddenly, revolted against them.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + LONGING | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤deep, desperate, great, intense, overwhelming, passionate, terrible, wild深深的渴望;強烈的渴望;熱切的渴望◇She had a desperate longing to go back.她熱切渴望着回去。➤sudden突然湧起的渴望▸➤hopeless無望的期盼▸➤nostalgic, wistful對過去的懷念◇a wistful longing for the past對往昔歲月的懷念➤secret內心的渴望▸➤physical, sexual性飢渴➤human人類的渴望◇human longing for truth and meaning人類對真理和人生意義的渴望VERB + LONGING➤be filled with, be full of, feel, have充滿渴望◇He felt an overwhelming longing to hear her voice again.他熱切地渴望能再聽到她的聲音。➤satisfy滿足渴望PREPOSITION➤longing for對⋯的渴望◇his intense longing for privacy他對獨處的強烈渴望