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A hankering is a strong wish to have something or to do something. It often feels like a quiet pull that does not go away — for a food, a trip, a job, a way of living. It is a little old-fashioned and friendly, the noun that matches the verb . You can have a hankering for dumplings or a hankering to go home. Though actually, it is not as light as a (a sudden small idea) and not as fierce as an addiction; it sits in the middle: a real want that stays. Informal talk might just say for food; hankering can be food or almost anything else.
渴望
組成hanker + -ing, the wish that comes from hankering after something.
同家族的字
- hankerthe verb this noun is built from
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
hankeringnoun
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A strong, restless desire, longing, or mental inclination.
- I found that he had dipped a little in chimerical studies and had a hankering after astrology and alchymy.
- Mr. Hall thinks he has no personal hatred of Moore; he says he even likes to talk to him, and run after him, but he has a hankering that he should be made an example of.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。