yearns是什么意思？

yearns

• v. 渴望，切盼，向往( yearn的第三人称单数 )；

例句

• Mr Hu, however, probably yearns for the good old days. 但胡大概也怀念美好的旧时光吧.
• What I dread is to get into a rut. One yearns for freshness of thought and ideas. 我害怕的就是墨守成规. 人总是向往新思想和新观念的.
• Every man yearns for sympathy in sorrow. 每个遇到不幸的人都渴望得到同情.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  渴望;渴求;向往
  If someone yearns for something that they are unlikely to get, they want it very much.
  例句
  He yearned for freedom... 他渴望自由。 I yearned to be a movie actor. 我曾渴望成为一名电影演员。