| 释义 |
longed, ppl. a.|lɒŋd|
[f. long v. + -ed1.]
Earnestly desired. Now always longed-for; formerly also (poet.) without the adv., as if from a transitive use of the vb.
1526Tindale Phil. iv. i, Brethren dearly beloved and longed for. a1592H. Smith 6 Serm. (1618) C 7 b, May not the fastned Ship in a strange Land desire to bee loosed, to hasten to his longed for Port at home? 1595Shakes. John iv. ii. 8 Fresh expectation troubled not the Land With any long'd for change, or better State. 1601Breton Longing Blessed Heart (Grosart) 10/2 She went all weeping..And would not cease vntill her loue might haue Her longèd fruite. 1721Ramsay Content 206 Our long'd-for bliss. c1800H. K. White Poems (1830) 134, I..will smile With joy that I have got my long'd release. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. IV. li. 19 The longed-for mother. 1898W. K. Johnson Terra Tenebr. 120 She sees the longed-for strand. |