这组词共同的意思是“渴望”。它们的区别在于:
1.pine暗示苦苦思念不可能得到的事物; long暗示有强烈的愿望并付诸努力; yearn则暗示不安地或痛苦地渴望做到某事或得到某物。
2.long和yearn后都可跟for短语或不定式,但long是一般用语,用于褒义或贬义都可;而yearn则通常用于高尚的感情或用于诗歌中。例如:
My brother yearned to return to his native land.我哥哥渴望回故乡。
这些动词都含“渴望”之意。
yearn通常指急迫不安地渴望或向往,着重怀有柔情或热情。
long指诚心诚意地渴望某事或物。
thirst原义指对食物或饮料的渴求,引申指全力以求。
词源词根法
来自PIE*gher,喜欢,想要,鼓励,词源同exhort,hortatory,charisma.=来自PIE*gher,喜欢,想要,鼓励,词源同exhort,hortatory,charisma.
词组短语
yearn for渴望;yearn towards向往…;想念
This university has rich pedagogical resources , and is a school that students yearn to attend.
这所大学师资力量雄厚, 是所有学子都向往的学校.
来源:网络文摘精选They yearn for the past, because the present policies do not yield much advantage to them.
他们感到现在的一套对他们益处不大, 所以对过去很留恋.
来源:网络文摘精选Perhaps, you want your child to yearn for her purchases and even to experience frustration.
你或许希望你的孩子对想买的东西充满渴望,甚至经受挫折.
来源:网络文摘精选This was the number of nights I yearn for the land, are really able to find?
这一片我向往了多少夜的净土, 是否真的可以去寻找?
来源:网络文摘精选If there is one thing one always yearn for and sometime attain, it is human love!
如果有一件人可以永远渴望,而且有时能够得到的东西, 那就是人类的爱!
来源:网络文摘精选Peddle sometimes pleasant , stop and yearn after solicitting many people.
叫卖声时而入耳,招揽了不少人驻足留恋.
来源:网络文摘精选People understandably yearn to return to the good old days of the late 1990 s.
人们希望回到上个世纪90年代末的好时光,这是可以理解的.
来源:网络文摘精选Twenty . I am unique, and unrepeatable. Dare to love and be loved. Yearn for grace.
独一无二的, 而且无法复制. 敢于去爱与被爱.追求荣耀.
来源:网络文摘精选The children in the mountains yearn to have a look at the outside world.
山里的孩子向往着到外面的世界看一看.
来源:互联网摘选We yearn for thecomfort of familiar lies to create a more amenable reality.
耳熟能详的谎言会创造一个较易应付的现实.
来源:网络文摘精选We don't share a bed any more and I yearn for the day when we can.
我们不再同床而眠,但是我多么渴望有一天我们能够再睡在一起.
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