hankering
n. 渴望
v. 渴望( hanker的现在分词 ); 渴望得到,渴求
A hankering for something is a desire or longing for it.
From time to time we all get a hankering for something a little different...
我们每个人偶尔都会渴望有点变化。
Have you always had a hankering to be an actress?
你是否一直渴望成为一名演员?
1. a yearning for something or to do something
He has been hankering to spend an evening talking with you.
他一直渴望能找一天跟你谈一晚.
There was always an undercurrent of greediness, a hankering, and sense of waste.
总是存在着一种贪得无厌的暗流, 一种非分之想, 一种蹉跎的感觉.
It doesn't really sound like you have a hankering for anything in particular at all.
我也说不清楚想吃什么.
They all want me dead, and are hankering for my money.
他们都指望我死, 想得到我的钱.
Nor does his comment upon America suggest a hopeless hankering after an actual country.
你也不能从他对于美国的评论里,看出他无可奈何地眷恋一个实在的国家.