yearn, long, pine
这组词共同的意思是“渴望”。它们的区别在于:
1.pine暗示苦苦思念不可能得到的事物; long暗示有强烈的愿望并付诸努力; yearn则暗示不安地或痛苦地渴望做到某事或得到某物。
2.long和yearn后都可跟for短语或不定式,但long是一般用语,用于褒义或贬义都可;而yearn则通常用于高尚的感情或用于诗歌中。例如:
My brother yearned to return to his native land.我哥哥渴望回故乡。
yearn，long，thirst
这些动词都含“渴望”之意。
yearn通常指急迫不安地渴望或向往，着重怀有柔情或热情。
long指诚心诚意地渴望某事或物。
thirst原义指对食物或饮料的渴求，引申指全力以求。
Charlotte Bronte the natural disposition is arrogant, pursues and yearns for all fine things.
夏洛蒂生性孤傲, 追求并向往一切美好的东西.
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Every man yearns for sympathy in sorrow.
每个遇到不幸的人都渴望得到同情.
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What I dread is to get into a rut. One yearns for freshness of thought and ideas.
我害怕的就是墨守成规. 人总是向往新思想和新观念的.
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Elsa yearns for the day she can return to her native country.
埃尔莎渴望有朝一日能回到自己的祖国.
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Mr Hu, however, probably yearns for the good old days.
但胡大概也怀念美好的旧时光吧.
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The Buddhism yearns for vimukta, and goes after nirvana realm.
佛家崇尚解脱, 追求涅磐境界.
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The ring yearns above all else to return to the hand of its master.
魔戒也一直想要回到它主人的手里.
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He is what Voldemort yearns to be - immortal!
这就是为什么伏地魔称他不朽的原因.
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He yearns for home.
他思念家乡.
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The youth yearns day and night For the good maiden fair.
窈窕淑女,寤寐求之.
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The child yearns much toward his friends.
那小孩很想念他的朋友.
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Pei yearns to establish a contemporary form of Chinese landscape design.
因为贝聿铭渴望用当代的形式来设计表现中国的景观.
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Yearns for other shore happiness.
向往彼岸旳幸福.
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