| 释义 |
hankering, vbl. n.|ˈhæŋkərɪŋ|
[f. prec. + -ing1.]
A mental craving or longing.
1662J. Bargrave Pope Alex. VII (1867) 79 He had an ambitious hankering after a cap. 1678Butler Hud. iii. ii. 239 And felt such Bowel-Hankerings, To see an Empire all of Kings. 1712Steele Spect. No. 431 ⁋3, I then took a strange Hankering to Coals; I fell to scranching 'em. 1771Franklin Autobiog. Wks. 1840 I. 16, I still had a hankering for the sea. 1893A. Jessopp Stud. Recluse vii. 217 The hankering for what we call sympathy is the virtue—or the vice—of advanced civilisation. |