喜樂美語
  1. 1渴望、思念（深切而帶點苦的想要）

    To yearn is to want something so deeply that the wanting hurts a little — and usually the thing is far away, long gone, or not possible at all. That last part is what makes 'yearn' different from 'want'. You want a coffee; you yearn for a home you left twenty years ago, or for a person who does not love you back, or for a life you never had. The feeling is quiet and long-lasting, not a sudden . Grammar first: it almost always takes 'for' — 'she yearned for peace' — or an — 'he yearned to go home'. You rarely say 'yearn something'. It is a written, literary word. In poems, songs, and novels it is everywhere; in everyday Taiwanese-English conversation it would sound heavy, and people say 'really miss' or 'would love to' instead. Using it in ordinary speech is not wrong, just emotional — which a writer may want on purpose. There is also a rarer, warmer use: to yearn for someone can mean to feel tender pity toward them, as in older writing, 'his heart yearned toward the child'.

組成From Old English ġeornan 'to desire, to beg'. Behind that is an old Germanic word meaning 'eager, willing' — so at the root, to yearn is to be eager, but English has coloured it with sadness over the centuries.

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yearnverb詞源 1/jɜːn/

  • 1

    To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for or to do something.

    • All I yearn for is a simple life.
    • I muſt do that my heart-ſtrings yern to do: but my word's paſt.
  • 2

    To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for or to do something.

    • If I don’t go now, thought Charlotte, I shall have lost a chance which I shall eternally regret and yearn after.
    • Having shaken the dust of the ugly new South Africa from his feet, is he yearning for the South Africa of the old days, when Eden was still possible?
  • 3

    Of music, words, etc.: to express strong desire or longing.

    • The music, yearning like a God in pain, / She scarcely heard: […]
  • 4

    datedTo have strong feelings of affection, love, sympathy, etc., toward someone.

    • And Joſeph made haſte: for his bowels did yerne upon his brother: and he ſought where to weepe, and hee entred into his chamber, & wept there.
    • I have left your mother in the next room. Her heart yearns towards you.
  • 5

    obsoleteTo be distressed or pained; to grieve; to mourn.

    • My father’s and my uncle Toby’s hearts yearn’d with ſympathy for the poor fellow’s diſtreſs,—[…]
  • 6

    Often followed by out: to perform (music) which conveys or say (words) which express strong desire or longing.

  • 7

    archaicTo have a strong desire or longing (for something or to do something).

  • 8

    obsoleteTo cause (someone) to have strong feelings of affection, love, sympathy, etc.; also, to grieve or pain (someone).

    • Well, ſhe laments Sir for it, that it would yern your heart to see it: […]
    • It yernes me not, if men my Garments weare; / Nor care I who doth feed vpon my coſt: / Such outward things dwell not in my deſires. / But if it be a ſinne to couet Honor, / I am the moſt offending Soule aliue.

yearnnoun詞源 1/jɜːn/

  • 1

    A strong desire or longing; a yearning, a yen.

    • Gibbs now said he wasn't going to pull any punches with Gary when he knew how jealous a man could get, so he also wanted to tell him that Phil Hansen was reputed to have a yearn for attractive ladies.
    • "After he had made a record date with us in 1935, I always had a yearn for Ben," he said years later.

yearnverb詞源 2/jɜːn/

  • 1

    Of milk: to curdle, especially in the cheesemaking process.

  • 2

    Of cheese: to be made from curdled milk.

  • 3

    To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.

  • 4

    To make (cheese) from curdled milk.

    • Also his Honour the Duke will accept ane of our Dunlop cheeses, and it sall be my faut if a better was ever yearned in Lowden.

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