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

• Light is a language to make us sure the idea of designer and his hanker of art.
  光是一种语言，向我们述说设计师的设计理念和艺术追求；
• I don't hanker after squirrel meat.
  我不喜欢吃松鼠肉。
• He does hanker for the regular free-form meetings he used to have with Fed officials, sitting round for hours and talking about whatever interested him that day.
  他的确怀念与美联储官员经常进行的自由式会议，大家围坐在一起几个小时，讨论他那一天感兴趣的任何内容。
• At last Jack began to hanker after a little excitement.
  后来，杰克又渴望找点儿刺激了。
• I often hanker after a little peace and respite from confusion, but it is really hard to come by.
  我常想在纷扰中寻出一点闲静来，然而委实不容易。
• IF YOU hanker after the idealistic spirit of international co-operation, talk to the boss of an emerging-market multinational.
  如果你渴望跨国合作的理想主义精神，那么你和跨国新兴市场的老板就有的聊了。
• 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。
• The more they receive, the more they want. They will never be satisfied.; hanker for more; Having got Gansu, he aspires after Sichuan.; Much will have more.
  他们得陇望蜀，永远无法使他们心满意足。
• But while British women may wish for the 47-year-old's youthful, toned figure, it seems they do not hanker after her toyboy husband, 31-year-old Ashton Kutcher.
  尽管英国女性也许渴望拥有像这个47岁的女星那样年轻、健美的身材，但她们似乎对她的小老公&31岁的阿什顿·库彻并不感兴趣。
• 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。