yearning
渴望,眷恋,欲望,思念
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- : deep longing, especially when accompanied by tenderness or sadness: a widower's yearning for his wife.
- : an instance of such longing.
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This may or may not show a national yearning to complain as a means of passing the time, and it hints that the complaining might continue even through this coronavirus-wrecked year when maybe it shouldn’t.
Every image is full of the deepest yearnings for freedom and independence.
It’s a yearning that’s become familiar during this pandemic, for those things I know I can’t have.
Eventually, he says, “there will be a yearning to meet new people once again, and when it’s safe to do so, we’ll be there at the ready.”
Yet they’re also about many different types of isolation and the human yearning to not be alone.
Yet, many do not find in this shared, human yearning a reason to regard immigrants as “like us” rather than “not like us.”
He was constantly yearning to be a politician and an editor at the same time.
Yet the tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free did not always find what they expected in America.
Each was in a day-by-day survival mode—each in his own way yearning for self-worth.
“If You Had My Love” was silky-smooth with just the right amount of anguished yearning.
But also it was an inarticulate yearning to find that state of safety where he and she dwelt secure from separation—in the 'sea.'