0 to wish very strongly, especially for something that you cannot have or something that is very difficult to have -- 渴望,切盼,渴求
Despite his great commercial success he still yearns for critical approval. 尽管他获得了巨大的票房成功,但还是渴望得到评论家的认可。
[ + to infinitive ] Sometimes I just yearn to be alone. 有时我只想一人独处。
It can also inform larger questions about what it is we yearn for when we imagine effective public language and viable political identity.
If we yearn to retain those approaches, his attempt is probably as good as we can get.
The speaker does not yearn for heavenly light, but a humble "beacon" of human manufacture.
In the absence of visible and certain revelation, the texts substituted narrative, with its yearning appeal for an enabling hermeneutic reciprocity.
Europeans do not embrace extremely anti-immigrant views, but neither are they yearning to welcome the world's huddled masses.
They yearn to manufacture human-alien hybrids, ethical androids and genetically programmed clones.
The end results were very satisfying but must have left them yearning for a more rapid method for resolving rock fabrics.
The yearning for performance is displaced entirely into narratives recounting that yearning.