longings

英 [ˈlɒŋɪŋz]

美 [ˈlɔŋɪŋz]

n.  (对…的)渴望，热望
longing的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 渴望；热望；憧憬
  If you feellongingor alonging forsomething, you have a rather sad feeling because you want it very much.
  1. He felt a longing for the familiar...
     他渴望找到知交。
  2. Imelda spoke of her longing to return home...
     伊美尔达说她期望能够回家。
  3. I was overwhelmed with longing for those innocent days of early childhood.
     我内心充满着对纯真的童年时光的怀念。

双语例句

• Old longings nomadic leap, chafing at customs chain again from its brumal sleep wakens the ferine strain.
  长久以来的渴望不时闪动，因为世俗的羁绊而怒火中烧，将再次从冬眠中唤醒那野生的天性。
• E has lived in a vacuum for eighteen years, cloyed by the representative and unique longings of any youth.
  他离群独处生活了18年，腻味了年轻人那一套典型而独特的向往和追求。
• Freedom from desire is not the freedom I want. I want the freedom to fulfil my longings.
  免除欲望并非我想要的自由。我想要的是满足渴望的自由。
• So many people ( women in particular) doubt the validity of their feelings or repress their deepest longings because they think they're wrong to have them.
  很多的人（尤其是女人）怀疑他们感觉的正确性，或者压制最深的渴望，因为他们觉得他们不该有。
• He may have been in the father's house but he never shared in the longings of the father's heart over the younger son.
  他虽然一直住在父的家中，却从没有明白父亲的心，没有分担父亲挂念弟弟的痛苦。
• The desire to promote evidence of anomalous and paranormal events as genuine springs from deep human longings.
  人类内心深处渴望证明反常、灵异的事件。
• Appetite is the keenness of living; it is one of the senses that tells you that you are still curious to exist, that you stillhave an edge on your longings and want to bite into the world and taste its multitudinous flavours and juices.
  食欲是对生存的强烈渴望；这一咸官告诉你，你对生存仍有好奇心，你和欲望和期待仍很旺盛，依然希望咀嚼这大千世界，品尝它五花八门的风味和甜汁儿。
• What kind of longings are working on her?
  她在渴望什么呢？
• Only a short distance away, German soldiers were listening to the same song, sharing our loneliness and longings.
  仅仅咫尺之遥的地方，德国士兵也正在收听这同一首歌曲，和我们一同感受着孤独与渴望。
• Draw upon your deepest longings to pull together an idyllic concept of yourself with all the detail possible.
  借鉴你们那最深切的渴望，将你们自己田园诗般的概念聚在一起，并且细节尽可能详尽。