hanker

英 [ˈhæŋkə(r)]

美 [ˈhæŋkər]

v.  渴望，渴求(某事物)

现在分词：hankering　过去式：hankered　复数：hankers　过去分词：hankered　第三人称单数：hankers　

TEM8

BNC.22119 / COCA.30477

牛津词典

verb

• 渴望，渴求（某事物）
  to have a strong desire for sth
  1. He had hankered after fame all his life.
     他一生追求名望。
  2. She hankered to go back to Australia.
     她渴望回到澳大利亚。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 渴望;热望
  If youhanker aftersomething, you want it very much.
  1. I hankered after a floor-length brown suede coat.
     我渴望有一件长及脚跟的棕色绒面革大衣。

英英释义

verb

• desire strongly or persistently
  Synonym:longyearn

双语例句

• For house-hunters who hanker after central city living with a country quality, the open weekend is an ideal opportunity to prospect for or fantasise about London garden square living and to weigh up the pros and cons of communal space.
  对于那些渴望居住在市中心、又希望享受乡村气息的购房者而言，开放周末是一个理想的机会，可以去探寻或设想伦敦花园广场的居住氛围，并权衡社区环境的优缺点。
• His topping personal quality was prominently manifested in his profound thinking about the meaning of life, the unremitting hanker for peace and right of mankind, and the search for scientific morality and beauty.
  他的杰出人文素质最突出地表现在：他对人生意义的深刻思考，对人类和平与正义的不懈追求以及对科学道德和科学美的探求。
• Light is a language to make us sure the idea of designer and his hanker of art.
  光是一种语言，向我们述说设计师的设计理念和艺术追求；
• They also hanker for advisers to provide a customised, disciplined investment process similar to what most large institutions command.
  他们还渴望顾问们能提供类纪律严明的定制投资程序，就像多数大型机构提供的那样。
• He has not learned to despise the dust, and to hanker after gold.
  他没有学会厌恶尘土而渴求黄金。
• What did you hanker after most when you were in prison?
  你在监狱时最渴望的是什么？
• Many of those who liked the idea of restoring America's international prestige also hanker for a bit more urgency.
  希望美国修复国际声誉的许多人，也期盼奥巴马加紧脚步。
• However much we may hanker after comfort and security, we have to face reality.
  不管我们多么渴求舒适和安全，我们必须面对现实。
• An official, as a professionist, is expected not to hanker for self-interest that only common professionists do, but to insist on the consciousness of government service and erect the professional role morality with the core of dedication.
  官员作为职业者，其社会期望不是正当地追求私利，而是坚持公职意识，树立以奉献为核心的职业角色道德；
• In addition, the improving on data rate of the systems is also our hanker goal.
  另外，对系统速率的不断提高也是人们不懈追求的目标。