wistfulness n.
渴望, 愿望
wistfulness[ noun ]
a sadly pensive longing
<noun.feeling>
Wistful \Wist"ful\, a. [For wishful; perhaps influenced by
wistly, which is probably corrupted from OE. wisly certainly
(from Icel. viss certain, akin to E. wit). See {Wish}.]
1. Longing; wishful; desirous.
Lifting up one of my sashes, I cast many a wistful,
melancholy look towards the sea. --Swift.
2. Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing;
pensive; contemplative.
That he who there at such an hour hath been,
Will wistful linger on that hallowed spot. --Byron.
※ -- {Wist"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Wist"ful*ness},
n.
- Holly Hunter brings a kind of pinched wistfulness to the hapless Ed.