| 单词 | longing |
| 释义 | longing (lɒŋɪŋ , US lɔːŋ- ) Word forms: longings variable noun [NOUN to-infinitive] If you feel longing or a longing for something, you have a rather sad feeling because you want it very much. He felt a longing for the familiar. [+ for] Imelda spoke of her longing to return home. [+ to-infinitive] I was overwhelmed with longing for those innocent days of early childhood. Synonyms: desire, hope, wish, burning Collocations: deep longing I have a deep longing for community and sense of belonging. Christianity Today A survivor of horrors, he expresses that deep longing for art and story: you choke a bit. Times, Sunday Times The deepest aspirations for the future were informed by a deep longing for an idealized past of antiquity. The Times Literary Supplement The longing that the fisher and his distant beloved felt for each other was immediately understood as a poetic expression of the deep longing for reunification with the motherland. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We will ache for his presence and have deep longings that are unmet. Christianity Today It might be described as a romantic longing for impossible transcendence. Times, Sunday Times This probably understates the romantic longing she experienced, and the curiosity to know what had become of him. Times, Sunday Times We build over it, we travel over it, we mine, farm and pollute it; and alongside this we have another almost romantic longing for what we have plundered. Times, Sunday Times He responded to his spiritual longings by attending a spiritualist church. Christianity Today If an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We may be less 'religious' than we were 50 years ago, but the spiritual longings remain the same. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 极想念 Japanese: 恋しさ |
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