| 词组 | yearn |
| 释义 | yearn People who yearn usually yearn for something: • He yearned for a drink —William Styron, Lie Down in Darkness, 1951 • ... the man yearns for companionship —Daphne du Maurier, Ladies' Home Jour., August 1971 Less common prepositions following yearn are after, toward (or towards), and over: • ... who yearned after the social and economic setup of the nineteenth century —Collier's Year Book, 1949 • He yearns toward the European grand-prix circuits —Newsweek, 22 Mar. 1954 • ... and the new ... hand-sewing machines the Indian women yearned over —Marjory Stoneman Douglas, The Everglades: River of Grass, 1947 |
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