hankering

英语

动词

hankering

1. hanker 的現在時分詞和動名詞
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, 章號 24, 出自 Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], 出版於 1848, →OCLC:

     " […] You don't mean," Mr. Osborne continued, gathering wrath and astonishment as the thought now first came upon him; "you don't mean that he's such a d—— fool as to be still hankering after that swindling old bankrupt's daughter? […] "

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   • 2008 5月 23, James Graff, “Lost: Labour's Love for Brown”, 出自 Time:

     [T]here is a clear sense that Britain is hankering for a change at the top.

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名词

hankering (複數 hankerings)

1. (經常后接for或after) 需要，渴望

   近義詞： craving

   • 1840, Washington Irving, The Knight of Malta:

     I found that he had dipped a little in chimerical studies and had a hankering after astrology and alchymy.

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   • 1849, Currer Bell [筆名; Charlotte Brontë], 章號 1, 出自 Shirley. A Tale. […], 卷s (請指定|volume=I、II或III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:

     Mike says he even likes to talk to him and run after him, but he has a hankering that Moore should be made an example of.

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   • 1904, W. W. Jacobs, 章號 2, 出自 Dialstone Lane:

     "Some people are fond of a stay-at-home life, but I always had a hankering after adventures."

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   • 2010 8月 12, Michael D. Lemonick, “Study: Lucy's Relatives Used Tools to Butcher Meat”, 出自 Time‎^[1]，於2012-09-13歸檔自原頁面:

     In other words, some species of human ancestor […] not only had a hankering for meat, which scientists had not expected, but used tools to get it.

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异序词

• harkening