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

• 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 don't forget my own longings which heartily resisted the pronouncement of Justice Holmes, which I read as an undergraduate, that certainty generally is illusion and repose is not our destiny.
  我并没有忘记自己曾经有过的渴望，当时我还是一个本科学生，一面阅读着霍尔姆斯大法官的书，一面拼命抵制着他的宣教。
• The foundation behind the practice of Yoga, or meditation proper, is the resolution of conflicts and fulfilment of all longings to the utmost extent until one reaches infinity itself.
  瑜伽，或正确的冥想，在它练习存在的背后，基础是冲突的化解和追求终极的意识延伸直至达到无限自我的这一唯一的目标的实现。
• But once in a great while the longings of these two generations come together in a way we never really understand.
  难得的是两代的渴望有时会结合在一起，那是我们不曾了解的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand atiptoe to peep at the heaven.
  群树如表示大地的愿望似的，踮起脚来向天空窥望。
• I yelled almost in despair, I'd had such idealistic longings for that girl in that past year and had conscience-stricken hours wondering if I should seduce her because she was so young and all.
  我几乎绝望地叫喊，在那去年我对这女郎是有着理想主义式的渴望及内疚的时刻（因她实在太年轻了，不知道应否诱惑她）。
• 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。