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

• This wet summer makes me hanker after a holiday in the sun.
  潮湿多雨的夏天使我渴望度过一个阳光明媚的假期。
• 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；
• He has not learned to despise the dust, and to hanker after gold.
  他没有学会厌恶尘土而渴求黄金。
• 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。
• This article introduce four traits of corporate-culture of huawei: ( 1) grandiose hanker, factualistic way;
  本文主要介绍了华为公司企业文化的四个特点：（1）远大的追求，求实的作风；
• 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。
• 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。
• An official, as a professionist, is expected not to hanker for self-interest that only common professionists do, but to insist on the consciousness of government service and erect the professional role morality with the core of dedication.
  官员作为职业者，其社会期望不是正当地追求私利，而是坚持公职意识，树立以奉献为核心的职业角色道德；
• Furthermore, enterprises hanker after the self-built logistics, not outsource logistics business, which make it difficult for logistics enterprises of our country to develop healthy. Why do enterprises of our country make little progress in logistics outsourcing?
  而且，由于企业热衷于自建物流、不进行物流外包，还使得我国物流企业发展艰难，相当多的物流企业吃不饱、长不大，甚至因此而夭亡。
• Even after all these years, I still hanker for a motorbike.
  尽管过了这么些年，我仍然希冀得到一辆摩托车。