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    To hanker is to want something strongly, often something you cannot have right now, or something you miss from before. It is a little old-fashioned and a little warm; you hear it in stories and careful speech more than in very young chat. You usually hanker after something or hanker for something — a food, a place, a kind of life. It is stronger than a passing wish, but not as sharp as need. Though actually, it often has a hanging-on feeling: the want stays with you. It is not hangar (the big building for planes), and it is not the yarn word hank.

    渴望、惦記

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組成An old verb related to hang, with a suffix -er that marks a repeated action: the want keeps hanging on. Related to Dutch hunkeren, “to crave.”

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  • hangfrom the same old Germanic verb meaning to hang; the desire hangs on you
  • hankeringthe noun: the strong wish itself

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

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hankerverb/ˈhæŋkə(ɹ)/

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    To crave, want or desire.

    • If you hanker for chocolate, you'll like this fudge recipe.
    • “O ’tis true enough, faith. I cannot understand Farmer Boldwood being such a fool at his time of life as to ho and hanker after thik^([sic]) woman in the way ’a do, and she not care a bit about en.”

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