hankering

英语

动词

hankering

1. hanker 的現在時分詞和動名詞
   • 1847January – 1848 July，William Makepeace Thackeray，章號 24，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年5月23日，James Graff，“Lost: Labour's Love for Brown”，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. (常后接for或after) 需要，渴望

   近義詞：craving

   • 1840，w: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，Shirley. A Tale. […]，第 (請指定|volume=I、II或III) 卷，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. W. Jacobs，章號 2，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年8月12日，Michael D. Lemonick，“Study: Lucy's Relatives Used Tools to Butcher Meat”，Time‎^[1]，原文存檔於2012-09-13：

     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