| 词组 | hanker |
| 释义 | hanker Hanker, when used with a preposition, is most frequently combined with after: • Mrs. Morel wanted to buy him a little sable brush that he hankered after. But this indulgence he refused —D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, 1913 • ... betrays himself when he hankers too yearningly after common human fulfilments —Aldous Huxley, The Olive Tree, 1937 • ... a moment when he hankered after other, strange delights—Robertson Davies, Tempest-tost, 1951 Nearly as often, hanker is used with for or with to and the infinitive: • At the bottom of my heart I hankered for Larry, but as long as I didn't see him it didn't really bother me —W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1944 • ... one hankers for the character he played in "The Blackboard Jungle" instead of the point-making prigs he takes on now —Penelope Gilliatt, New Yorker, 17 June 1967 • ... making me thus kind of hanker, for dear "amusement's" sake, to decorate the thing —Henry James, "Notes for The Ivory Tower," 1917 • ... any fourteen historical characters with whom you hanker to spend an evening —Clifton Fadiman, Holiday, June 1953 The evidence also includes an occasional use of hanker with toward: • ... those who were soon to call themselves 'sophisticated' were hankering toward Dorian Gray's aesthetic life —James D. Hart, The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste, 1950 |
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