- 1渴望、惦記
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.
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.”
原始詞典資料1 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。
hankerverb/ˈhæŋkə(ɹ)/
- 1
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.”
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。