hanker

英 [ˈhæŋkə(r)]

美 [ˈhæŋkər]

v.  渴望，渴求(某事物)

现在分词：hankering　过去式：hankered　复数：hankers　过去分词：hankered　第三人称单数：hankers　

TEM8

BNC.22119 / COCA.30477

牛津词典

verb

• 渴望，渴求（某事物）
  to have a strong desire for sth
  1. He had hankered after fame all his life.
     他一生追求名望。
  2. She hankered to go back to Australia.
     她渴望回到澳大利亚。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 渴望;热望
  If youhanker aftersomething, you want it very much.
  1. I hankered after a floor-length brown suede coat.
     我渴望有一件长及脚跟的棕色绒面革大衣。

英英释义

verb

• desire strongly or persistently
  Synonym:longyearn

双语例句

• I don't hanker after squirrel meat.
  我不喜欢吃松鼠肉。
• Furthermore, enterprises hanker after the self-built logistics, not outsource logistics business, which make it difficult for logistics enterprises of our country to develop healthy. Why do enterprises of our country make little progress in logistics outsourcing?
  而且，由于企业热衷于自建物流、不进行物流外包，还使得我国物流企业发展艰难，相当多的物流企业吃不饱、长不大，甚至因此而夭亡。
• In addition, the improving on data rate of the systems is also our hanker goal.
  另外，对系统速率的不断提高也是人们不懈追求的目标。
• His topping personal quality was prominently manifested in his profound thinking about the meaning of life, the unremitting hanker for peace and right of mankind, and the search for scientific morality and beauty.
  他的杰出人文素质最突出地表现在：他对人生意义的深刻思考，对人类和平与正义的不懈追求以及对科学道德和科学美的探求。
• I hankered after a floor-length brown suede coat.
  我渴望有一件长及脚跟的棕色绒面革大衣。
• However much we may hanker after comfort and security, we have to face reality.
  不管我们多么渴求舒适和安全，我们必须面对现实。
• Only lazybones and mediocre persons could hanker after the days of messing together.
  只有懒汉庸才才会留恋那大锅饭的年代。
• What did you hanker after most when you were in prison?
  你在监狱时最渴望的是什么？
• Even after all these years, I still hanker for a motorbike.
  尽管过了这么些年，我仍然希冀得到一辆摩托车。
• We all hanker for things that we shouldn't have too much of like ice cream and chocolate or other things that are even worse for body and soul.
  我们常常渴望得到一些不应该拥有太多的东西，例如冰淇淋和巧克力，又或是一些更有损身心的东西。