a yearning for sth
yearning 常与 for 连用,后面接所渴望的人或事物;它比 desire 更带感情色彩,常含惆怅意味。
After years abroad, she felt a deep yearning for her hometown.
在国外生活多年后,她对故乡怀有深深的思念。
渴望;向往;思念
一种渴望或忧伤的向往。;长期未满足的渴望或需求;热望;怀念
a deep, often sad longing for something; prolonged unfulfilled desire
一种渴望或忧伤的向往。
A wistful or melancholy longing.
长期未满足的渴望或需求
prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
After months abroad, she felt a deep yearning for her hometown.
在国外待了几个月后,她对家乡感到深深的思念。
用法提示:yearning 作名词,表示对家乡的深切思念。
His yearnings for a quieter life grew stronger each day.
他对更安静生活的渴望与日俱增。
用法提示:yearnings 是 yearning 的复数形式,作名词,表示持续的渴望。
The old letters filled her with a gentle yearning for the past.
那些旧信让她心中充满了对往昔的淡淡眷恋。
用法提示:yearning 作名词,表示对过去的眷恋之情。
yearning 常与 for 连用,后面接所渴望的人或事物;它比 desire 更带感情色彩,常含惆怅意味。
After years abroad, she felt a deep yearning for her hometown.
在国外生活多年后,她对故乡怀有深深的思念。
表示“渴望做某事”时用 to 不定式,一般不用 -ing 形式;yearning 作可数名词,常与 a 或复数 yearnings 连用。
He had a constant yearning to see the sea again.
他一直渴望能再次见到大海。
与yearning语义相近,但更强调对具体的人或事物的情感;yearning可更抽象,且语气略偏正式。
比yearning更强烈、更冲动,常用于具体物质如食物、烟酒;正式度较低。
语义最广,强度与持久性均弱于yearning;可作正式词汇,但少了yearning的忧伤情感色彩。
口语色彩浓,常指一时兴起的或带点任性的渴望;程度和持久性不如yearning。
特指因分离或失去而产生的悲伤思念,比yearning更痛苦、更被动;常与for搭配。
grammar · medium
易错句子She felt a deep yearning of her childhood home.
正确表达She felt a deep yearning for her childhood home.
表示“对某人或某物的向往”时,yearning 后面固定接介词 for,不能接 of。汉语说“对……的向往”,学习者容易把“的”直译成 of,但英语要用 for 引出向往的对象。
grammar · medium
易错句子She yearning for her homeland.
正确表达She has a yearning for her homeland.
yearning 是名词,不能单独作谓语;英语句子必须有限定动词,表示“怀有某种向往”要用 have a yearning for 结构。汉语没有词形变化,学习者容易把名词直接当动词用。
yearning 指未得到满足的渴望;satisfaction 是该渴望得到满足后的状态。
yearning 是未达成的欲望,fulfillment 表示欲望得到实现。
yearning 含有欠缺与渴求,contentment 则是安于现状、无所欠缺。
yearning 是强烈的渴求,indifference 是对之毫无兴趣或渴望。
longing 语气中性,可指任何强烈的愿望,日常小事也能用;yearning 更常带忧伤、惆怅的情绪色彩,并强调长期得不到满足的向往。
nostalgia 的对象只能是过去的人、事或时光,带温情回忆;yearning 的对象可以是未来或根本无法得到的东西,情绪偏忧伤。
craving 多指对食物、烟酒等具体事物的生理性强烈需求;yearning 偏精神与情感层面,常指长期未能满足的向往。
深深的渴望
He had a deep yearning to see the ocean again.
他内心深处渴望再次看到大海。
对…的渴望
Her yearning for peace grew stronger each day.
她对和平的渴望与日俱增。
未实现的渴望
The poem expresses an unfulfilled yearning for freedom.
这首诗表达了未能实现的对于自由的渴望。
默默的渴望
There was a quiet yearning in his voice when he spoke of his childhood.
当他谈起童年时,声音里有一种默默的渴望。
毕生的渴望
Her lifelong yearning to become a pilot finally came true.
她成为飞行员的毕生渴望终于实现了。
渴望做某事
He could not ignore his yearning to travel the world.
他无法忽视自己渴望环游世界的愿望。
与yearning同属对过去或逝去事物的深切情感,但nostalgia特指对往昔的怀念。
yearning常伴随的内心痛苦感,二者在描写情感伤痛时经常同时出现。
yearning指未实现的渴望,unfulfilled描述这种渴望尚未达成的状态。
yearning常指向难以企及的梦想或愿望,二者在谈论人生追求时关联紧密。
yearning可能源于对过去选择的遗憾,两者共同表达对无法改变之事的复杂情感。
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