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

• 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。
• Our company really believes that quality is the all, and the customer's satisfaction is just our hankering.
  我们公司全体员工始终坚信质量才是根本，顾客满意的微笑就是我们内心的喜悦。
• What kind of life are hankering for?
  你到底想要一种什么生活方式？
• He has been hankering to spend an evening talking with you.
  他一直渴望能找一天跟你谈一晚。
• Ever since then I've had a hankering to be a fruit grower.
  从那时起，我就渴望成为一个果农。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• Have you always had a hankering to be an actress?
  你是否一直渴望成为一名演员？
• 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。