英语释义

• a yearning for something or to do something

片语

aspiration渴望；抱负；送气；吸气；吸引术

longing渴望，热望；憧憬

longing for渴望

craving渴望；恳求（crave的ing形式）

英汉例句

• My husband has been hankering after a new car for a long time.

  我的老公一直渴望拥有一部新车。

• Thanks to its tropical climate, zoo-wrecking hurricanes and a greater-than-usual number of people with a hankering for fashionably exotic pets, Florida is an invasive-species mecca.

  由于地处热带，而且飓风让动物园面目全非，再加上一大帮珍禽异兽的狂热粉丝，佛罗里达成了这些外来物种的「圣城」。

• So if you「re hankering to see some meteors, the total absence of moonlight makes 2009 an opportune year for the Orionids.

  如果你非常渴望看到流星雨，月亮的缺席无疑让2009年成为观测猎户座流星雨最佳的年份。

• Evolution might have played an important part in the human hankering for salt.

  进化可能在人对于盐的渴求中扮演了重要的角色。

• The objective of hydrocarbon traps exploration is hankering for maximum profit.

  油气圈闭勘探以追求最小投入和最大利润为目的。

• If you have a hankering to be close to the water, Maryland real estate may be the answer.

  如果你是一个渴望接近水、马里兰房地产可能答案。

• Indians show no obvious hankering to be censored, silenced or deprived of the vote.

  印度人可不想被审查、被沉默、被剥夺选举权。

• The success in Asia of Carrefour, the French giant superstore chain, didn」t come because the famously lactose-intolerant East suddenly developed a hankering for brie.

  法国的连锁超市巨头家乐福却并没在亚洲取得成功，因为着名的乳糖不耐癥使东方人迅速转向了对布利干酪的喜爱。

• If you happen to find yourself in the Big Apple with a hankering for delicious borscht, be sure to take yourself to the Carnegie Deli.

  如果你恰好在大苹果（纽约的别称）寻觅美味的罗宋汤，一定要去卡内基熟食店。

• Occasionally, it「s even mistaken for a love hotel by couples hankering for some time beneath the sheets.

  偶尔还会有想共度春宵的情侣将其误认为是情人酒店。

• Poles may end up hankering for the dullness of Mr Tusk」s heyday.

  波兰人可能最终会怀念图斯克先生黄金时期那种沉闷无聊。

• You「ve been hankering for more 「Angry Birds」, but until the sequel is complete, there」s always the seasonal updates.

  你是不是为更多的愤怒小鸟关卡等候多时啦？不过幸好的是在它的续集推出之前，我们还是可以体验它的节日升级的。

• He could not understand why his countrymen were moaning and hankering after the past-but he had not experienced the transition.

  他无法理解他的同胞们为何都对过去充满哀叹和不舍——但是他没有经历那次转变。

• These three kinds of austerities when practiced without hankering for fruitive rewards by devout persons of ardent faith is designated as being in the nature of goodness.

  挚信虔诚的人们，不求回报地奉行上述身，口，意三方面的戒修，就是处于善性的品德中。

• Somewhere along the line in one damn incarnation or another, if you like, you not only had a hankering to be an actor or an actress, but to be a good one. You「re stuck with it now.

  在线路的某个地方，在化身或其他东西里，如果你想要，你不仅能渴望成为一个演员,也能成为一个出色的演员，你想现在是被困住了。

• It was a sporty model I」d been hankering after for a while, and when it turned up in a local showroom, with its cream body and black and white checked roof, I couldn「t resist.

  车身轻便，我渴望已久，它在当地陈列厅出现的时候，奶油色车身，黑白格子车顶，我无力抗拒。

• It is love without hankering to get something in return.

  它是一种付出不求回报的爱。

• If you」re hankering for a specific food, it「s probably a craving, not hunger.

  如果你想吃某种特定的食物，那么这可能只是渴求而不是饑饿。

• A toad hankering for a taste of swan.

  癞蛤蟆想天鹅肉吃。

• European nations, in particular, maintained a hankering for fixed exchange rates.

  尤其是欧洲诸国，一直希望应用固定汇率制度。

• For the most part, experts say, those people are not going to notice much damage to their phone batteries before they start hankering for a new device.

  业内人士称，大多数情况下，这些人在对一部新设备心生向往之前，并不会注意到旧设备的电池受损有多严重。

• And also, if Rahul can have just another whole day with her, an idle summer」s day, a slow attentive day, perhaps this new hankering of hers will melt away.

  再说，要是拉胡尔能和她一起再呆上一整天，懒洋洋的夏季的一天，缓慢悠长、相亲相爱的一天，或许她这种新近生成的热望就会消融、散去。

相似词

appetite食欲；嗜好

yearning渴望，向往

thirst渴望；口渴