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

• What kind of longings are working on her?
  她在渴望什么呢？
• Nobler thoughts and nobler longings were throbbing through my brain.
  更高尚的思想和渴望在头脑中冲荡。
• Life was bearable, without happiness, without grief. So, what you can't wave away is those expectations, secrets, longings, joys and sorrows, as well as ups and downs.
  这种生活也还是可以过下去的，没有欢喜，也没有悲哀。所以，你挥之不去，那时的期盼，秘密，憧憬，悲与喜，真真切切的起落。
• I know your longings and I have heard your frequent sighs.
  我认得你的愿望，我听得了你屡发的叹息。
• 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。
• 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。
• The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand a-tiptoe to peep at the heaven.
  1群树好像表达大地的愿望似的，跷脚站着，向天空窥望。
• 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。
• You have sung to me in my aloneness, and I of your longings have built a tower in the sky.
  你们在我的孤寂中为我歌唱，而我，在空中为你们的渴望建起一座楼阁。
• This is a combo of farewell and unfulfilled longings towards an absent loved one.
  这是个结合了别离与未尽之渴望的组合，对某位已不复存在的爱人。