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

• All the featured projects not only indicate people's hankering to fashion and new trend, but also supply people with the exact demand of dining environment.
  此书中介绍的设计作品不仅体现了人们对时尚和潮流的追求，同时也满足了他们对于就餐环境品质的向往。
• It has been said that romance is dead in the modern age but our hearts are still hankering for it, it seems.
  有人说现代早已没有真正的浪漫，但我们似乎依然拥有一颗追求浪漫的心。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Thanks to its tropical climate, zoo-wrecking hurricanes and a greater-than-usual number of people with a hankering for fashionably exotic pets, Florida is an invasive-species mecca.
  由于地处热带，而且飓风让动物园面目全非，再加上一大帮珍禽异兽的狂热粉丝，佛罗里达成了这些外来物种的“圣城”。
• Those days are gone and there's no point hankering after them.
  那些日子一去不复返了，再想得到它们是毫无道理的。
• Unfortunately, after a while, you would become accustomed to the great food and the no-hassle travel, and you would be hankering for something even better.
  不幸的是，用不了多久，你就会吃腻了珍馐美味，厌倦了专属的旅行，这时候你将开始向往那些好上加好的东西了。
• And his strongly hankering for art.
  对诗歌艺术美的强烈追求。
• The objective of hydrocarbon traps exploration is hankering for maximum pr of it.
  油气圈闭勘探以追求最小投入和最大利润为目的。