hankering
英 ['hæŋk(ə)rɪŋ]
美
- n. 渴望；向往
- v. 渴望（hanker的ing形式）
词态变化
复数: hankerings;
中文词源
hankering 强烈欲望
来自hanker,渴望。
英英释意
- 1. a yearning for something or to do something
英文词源
- hankering (n.)
- "mental craving," 1660s, verbal noun from hanker.
实用场景例句
- a hankering for a wealthy lifestyle
- 渴望过富裕生活
牛津词典
- Have you always had a hankering to be an actress?
- 你是否一直渴望成为一名演员？
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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.
辞典例句
- There was always an undercurrent of greediness, a hankering, and sense of waste.
- 总是存在着一种贪得无厌的暗流, 一种非分之想, 一种蹉跎的感觉.
辞典例句
- It doesn't really sound like you have a hankering for anything in particular at all.
- 我也说不清楚想吃什么.
期刊摘选
- They all want me dead, and are hankering for my money.
- 他们都指望我死, 想得到我的钱.
辞典例句
- Nor does his comment upon America suggest a hopeless hankering after an actual country.
- 你也不能从他对于美国的评论里,看出他无可奈何地眷恋一个实在的国家.
辞典例句
- He had a hankering to own a car.
- 他渴拥有汽车.
期刊摘选
- Evolution might have played an important part in the human hankering for salt.
- 进化可能在人对于盐的渴求中扮演了重要的角色.
期刊摘选
- Where would you go if you had a hankering for some good ol'Texas barbecue?
- 如果你非常渴望一些不错的德州烧烤时,你会去哪?
期刊摘选
- He actually gets the job he is hankering after, as art director.
- 他最后得到了他梦寐以求的艺术指导的工作.
期刊摘选
- European nations, in particular, maintained a hankering for fixed exchange rates.
- 尤其是欧洲诸国, 一直希望应用固定汇率制度.
期刊摘选
- 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.
辞典例句
- She's always hankering after excitement.
- 她一贯寻求刺激.
《简明英汉词典》
- Have you always had a hankering to be an actress?
- 你是否一直渴望成为一名演员？
辞典例句
- a hankering for a wealthy lifestyle
- 渴望过富裕生活
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- 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。
柯林斯例句