- 1渴望；癮（對食物、香菸那種壓不住的想要）
A craving is a very strong wish for something — so strong it sits in your body or will not leave your head. People talk about a craving for chocolate, for salt, for a cigarette, for sleep, or, more quietly, for home or kindness. It is much stronger than want. Want can be a choice; a craving pushes. Doctors and everyday talk both use it for food and for drugs; songs and novels use it for love. Informal to neutral, and very common. Though actually, the old English idea was closer to a claim or a demand — you were asking hard for something — and you can still feel that push, even though nobody uses craving as a polite request any more. The verb is ; craving is the name of the feeling (and also the -ing form: she is craving ice cream). As a noun, itself is rare.
From the word’s history
From Middle English cravinge, from Old English crafing 'claim, demand'; crave + -ing.
源自古英文 crafing「要求」，等於 crave 加 -ing。
組成crave + -ing. From Middle English cravinge, from Old English crafing, “claim, demand” — the noun built from the verb crave.
同家族的字
- cravethe verb this noun is built from: to want something very badly
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cravingnoun詞源 1/ˈkɹeɪ.vɪŋ/
- 1
A strong desire; yearning.
- [W]e contrived to satisfy the cravings of thirst by suffering the shirts to become saturated, and then wringing them so as to let the grateful fluid trickle into our mouths.
- The craving for cuteness is a psychological phenomenon that originally had the purpose of increasing the chances of a baby to survive […]
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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