hankering

英 [ˈhæŋkərɪŋ]

美 [ˈhæŋkərɪŋ]

n.  (对或做某事的)强烈欲望
v.  渴望，渴求(某事物)
hanker的现在分词

现在分词：hankering　

GRE

BNC.35868 / COCA.33521

牛津词典

noun

• （对或做某事的）强烈欲望
  a strong desire
  1. a hankering for a wealthy lifestyle
     渴望过富裕生活

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 渴望;热望
  Ahankering forsomething is a desire or longing for it.
  1. From time to time we all get a hankering for something a little different...
     我们每个人偶尔都会渴望有点变化。
  2. Have you always had a hankering to be an actress?
     你是否一直渴望成为一名演员？

英英释义

noun

• a yearning for something or to do something
  Synonym:yen

双语例句

• But if you're hankering to escape the crowds this summer, encounter new worlds and come back with a tale, think about some of these destinations.
  可是，如果你渴望躲开夏季的人潮，遇见全新的世界，带着传奇归来，那就考虑一下这几个地方吧。
• The objective of hydrocarbon traps exploration is hankering for maximum pr of it.
  油气圈闭勘探以追求最小投入和最大利润为目的。
• It has been said that romance is dead in the modern age but our hearts are still hankering for it, it seems.
  有人说现代早已没有真正的浪漫，但我们似乎依然拥有一颗追求浪漫的心。
• Detachment, buddy, and only detachment, desirelessness, cessation from all hankering.
  超然，巴蒂，唯一的超然，无欲无求，所有的渴望欲望停止。
• Most of us have a hankering for the good things on both sides of the line.
  我们中间大部分人都热切盼望两方面的好东西。
• He actually got the job he was hankering after* as art director.
  他最后得到了他梦寐以求的艺术指导的工作。
• I got a real hankering.
  我真的很想吃嘛。
• I'm rather impatient with writers who spend their time hankering after the past.
  那些把时间都花在怀恋过去的作家令我感到很不耐烦。
• But the reader is left hankering to know what Mr Garton Ash thinks about the mess that has succeeded it.
  但读者们想了解加顿•阿什对于政权更迭之后的乱局有何见解的渴望却未得到满足。
• If you give way to this hankering for food you will become fat.
  如果让步于贪食。你会发胖的。