
yearn基本信息
读法:英 [jɜːn] 美 [jɝn]
释义:
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星级词汇:★★★
英英释义
Verb:
"I am pining for my lover"
中英词源
yearn 渴望
来自PIE*gher,喜欢,想要,鼓励,词源同exhort,hortatory,charisma.
- yearn
- yearn: see eucharist
- yearn (v.)
- Old English giernan (West Saxon), geornan (Mercian), giorna (Northumbrian) "to strive, be eager, desire, seek for, beg, demand," from Proto-Germanic *gernjan (cognates: Gothic gairnjan "to desire," German begehren "to desire;" Old High German gern, Old Norse gjarn "desirous," Old English georn "eager, desirous," German gern "gladly, willingly"), from PIE root *gher- (5) "to like, want" (see hortatory). Related: Yearned; yearning.
词态变化
第三人称单数 yearns;
过去式 yearned;
过去分词 yearned;
现在分词 yearning;
权威造句
- 1. If you do yearn for chocolate, try a carob bar instead.
- 你要是非常想吃巧克力,那就嚼根角豆条解馋吧。
来自柯林斯例句WWW.wenTiYi.coM
- 2. This mentalist yearn easily trigger a large - scale consumption campaign.
- 这种心态容易引发一场大规模消费高潮.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 3. Is it not in the nature of all human beings to yearn for freedom?
- 渴望自由不是人类的天性 吗 ?
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. We yearn to surrender our entire being.
- 我们渴望着放纵我们整个的生命.
来自辞典例句
- 5. Do not yearn in desire toward it , but wait till it reaches you.
- 你不能欲望中烧,按捺不住, 只能静候它的到来.
来自辞典例句
近反义词
相似短语
单词分析
这些动词均含“渴望”之意。yearn通常指急迫不安地渴望或向往,着重怀有柔情或热情。
long指诚心诚意地渴望某事或物。
thirst原义指对食物或饮料的渴求,引申指全力以求。
记忆方法
1. y -> why + earn => yearn: 为何挣钱如此的令人向往、令人渴望。
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