yearn
英[j??n]
美[j?n]
- vi. 渴望，向往；思念，想念；懷念；同情，憐憫
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?yearns;過去式:?yearned;過去分詞:?yearned;現在分詞:?yearning;
助記提示
1. y -> why + earn => yearn: 為何掙錢如此的令人向往、令人渴望。
中文詞源
yearn 渴望
來自PIE*gher,喜歡，想要，鼓勵，詞源同exhort,hortatory,charisma.
英文詞源
- yearn
- yearn: see eucharist
- yearn (v.)
- Old English giernan (West Saxon), geornan (Mercian), giorna (Northumbrian) "to strive, be eager, desire, seek for, beg, demand," from Proto-Germanic *gernjan (cognates: 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- (5) "to like, want" (see hortatory). Related: Yearned; yearning.
雙語例句
- 1. If you do yearn for chocolate, try a carob bar instead.
- 你要是非常想吃巧克力，那就嚼根角豆條解饞吧。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. This mentalist yearn easily trigger a large - scale consumption campaign.
- 這種心態容易引發一場大規模消費高潮.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 3. Is it not in the nature of all human beings to yearn for freedom?
- 渴望自由不是人類的天性 嗎 ?
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. We yearn to surrender our entire being.
- 我們渴望著放縱我們整個的生命.
來自辭典例句
- 5. Do not yearn in desire toward it , but wait till it reaches you.
- 你不能欲望中燒,按捺不住, 只能靜候它的到來.
來自辭典例句