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单词 yearn
释义
yearn
verb[I]
uk
/jɜːn/us
/jɝːn/
C2
towishverystrongly,especiallyfor something that you cannot have or something that is verydifficultto have:
渴望，切盼，渴求
Despite hisgreatcommercialsuccesshe still yearnsforcriticalapproval.尽管他获得了巨大的票房成功，但还是渴望得到评论家的认可。
[+ to infinitive]Sometimes I just yearntobealone.有时我只想一人独处。
Synonyms
longforsomething; long to dosomethingformal
pine
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Wanting things
  • ache forsomething
  • acquisitive
  • ambitious
  • ambitiously
  • angle
  • angle forsomething
  • burn
  • fancy
  • hanker after/forsomething
  • haveyoureye onsomethingidiom
  • hunger
  • hunger after/forsomething
  • pine
  • setyourheart onsomething/doing somethingidiom
  • setyoursights onsomethingidiom
  • shook
  • sight
  • someone'sheart's desireidiom
  • straw
  • super-ambitious
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(Definition ofyearnfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

yearn| American Dictionary

yearn
verb[I]
us
/jɜrn/
todesiresomethingstrongly,esp. somethingdifficultorimpossibletoobtain:
[+ to infinitive]Joy yearns toearnenoughmoneyfrom herjobas a doctor’sassistantfor her tobecomeindependent.
(Definition ofyearnfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofyearn

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It can also inform larger questions about what it is weyearnfor when we imagine effective public language and viable political identity.
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If weyearnto retain those approaches, his attempt is probably as good as we can get.
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The speaker does notyearnfor heavenly light, but a humble "beacon" of human manufacture.
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In the absence of visible and certain revelation, the texts substituted narrative, with its yearning appeal for an enabling hermeneutic reciprocity.
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Europeans do not embrace extremely anti-immigrant views, but neither are they yearning to welcome the world's huddled masses.
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Theyyearnto manufacture human-alien hybrids, ethical androids and genetically programmed clones.
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The end results were very satisfying but must have left them yearning for a more rapid method for resolving rock fabrics.
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The yearning for performance is displaced entirely into narratives recounting that yearning.
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Since these educatorsyearnto maintain involvement with students throughout their careers, a desirable career structure must spotlight pedagogy.
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He yearns for this high art regime to be destabilized, and sees the influence of mechanical reproduction as a groundbreaking intervention.
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Should weyearnfor a return to the conditions of the 1950s and 1960s?
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However, it is the virtue of this book, like all good books, to make the readeryearnfor more.
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The picturesque hinted at, and yearned for, other social and urbanistic possibilities than were on offer in a city of remorseless modernity.
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The classical violin's rising, yearning variant was answered by the klezmer violin's freer version, their dialogue expanding through everwidening arpeggios, over sustained pedal points.
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Far from yearning for a stable and fixed past, female writers displace it by attempting to manipulate the collective memory that sanctions men's dominance and women's submission.
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