They all want me dead, and are hankering for my money. 147、他们都指望我死,只不过是想得到我的钱而已.
He actually gets the job he is hankering after, as art director. 他最后得到了他梦寐以求的艺术指导的工作。
He actually got the job he was hankering after... as art director. 他最后得到了他梦寐以求的艺术指导的工作。
hankering
[ noun ] a yearning for something or to do something <noun.feeling>
Hanker \Han"ker\ (h[a^][ng]"k[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Hankered} (-k[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Hankering}.] [Prob. fr. hang; cf. D. hunkeren, hengelen.] 1. To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town. --Addison.
He was hankering to join his friend. --J. A. Symonds.
2. To linger in expectation or with desire. --Thackeray.
For the past 18 months, new STC management has been hankering to dump ICL as incompatible with plans to expand their strong phone cable and transmission-gear business.
Bemco is the wholesaler and it will be happy to give details of local stockists (tel: 081-874 0404). Those hankering for a bit Somerset Maugham-style colonial romance might look at colonial-style ceiling fans with brass bodies and rattan blades.
Or, more specifically, retirees with loose change and a hankering to look for the good life in rural America.
THE UK's House of Commons trade and industry committee has a hankering for old-fashioned industrial policies.
Ten minutes into this tale of Andrew Crocker-Harris and the heartless, unpensioned retirement forced on him by his school, and we are hankering for the documentary exactitudes of Resnais.
In particular, he has a hankering for the negative income tax, which combines taxes and benefits, that was much studied by the Heath government. Before Lamont took over, there was the brief interlude of chancellor John Major.
But soon they fell prey to extravagances, a hankering for the quick buck, an inclination to beg and buy favors.
And for the man still hankering for a little nonconformity, this may be the most radical thing left.
"The students on the Brighton Reservation should be able to choose," Education Commissioner Betty Castor said Thursday after signing a rule that ended a three-month dispute between two rural districts hankering for the students.