单词 | wistful |
释义 | wist·ful 1. obsolete 2. a. < those wistful little ads which the lovelorn … place in the classified columns — E.B.White > < the wistful gaze of the explorer has turned upward to the clouds — Waldemar Kaempffert > b. < the wistful fragility of all new feeling — Marcia Davenport > < deserted buildings above which wistful flags fly bravely — George Haines > 3. < the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phase of beauty — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < would fix her eyes on the distance in dreary contemplation, and her mind would follow her eyes, in a vacant and wistful regard — G.D.Brown > • wist·ful·ly |
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