longing是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 渴望a. 显示渴望的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Light and air con-52 Andersen's Fairy Talestend with chivalric emulation for the love of the fair flower that bestowed her chief favors on the latter; full of longing she turned towards the light, and as soon as it vanished, rolled her tender leaves together and slept in the embraces of the air.
-- 'That is still better than to cross the sea!What a longing do I suffer!Were Christmas but come!I am now tall, and my branches spread like the others that were carried off last year!Oh!were I but already on the cart!Were I in the warm room with all the splendor and magnificence!Yes; then something better, something still grander, will surely follow, or wherefore should they thus ornament me?
-- He knew very much about the matter but he was so im-patient that for sheer longing he got a pain in his back, and this with trees is the same thing as a headache with us.
-- 'Yes, she is longing for me, no doubt: she is sorrowing for me, as she did for little Kay.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But now Levin was longing to find out what was tormenting him so, yet he had not the courage to begin.
-- But at the same time, he felt that the turning-point he had been longing for had come now; that it was impossible to go on concealing things from her husband, and it was inevitable in one way or another that they should soon put an end to their unnatural position.
-- The efforts she had made to like it seemed to her intolerable, and she felt a longing to get back quickly into the fresh air, to Russia, to Ergushovo, where, as she knew from letters, her sister Dolly had already gone with her children.
-- But Levin felt a longing to get as much mowing done that day as possible, and was vexed with the sun sinking so quickly in the sky.
-- "I'm tired, and was just longing to have some tea before they come.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt a sort of insurmountable longing to abandon the game altogether.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He rang, he saw her opening the door, he followed her down the meager hall, longing to take her hand.
-- In ten days, without seeing her again, he was off with Clif to the North Woods, and in his sorrow of losing her, his longing for her soft flesh and for her willingness to listen to him, he was only a little excited that he should have led the class in bacteriology, and that Max Gottlieb should have appointed him undergraduate assistant for the coming year.
-- But poverty kept him from fulfillment of his summer longing to sit beneath the poplars by the Rhine or the tranquil Seine, at a table on whose checkered cloth were bread and cheese and wine and dusky cherries, those ancient and holy simplicities of all the world.
-- Martin went to bed longing for the regularity of working all night and foraging for cigarettes at dawn.
-- All day, all night, as her throat crackled with thirst, she lay longing for someone to help her.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Raskolnikov felt furious; he had a sud-den longing to insult this fat dandy in some way.
-- He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt.
-- It was clear that she was stirred to the very depths, that she was longing to speak, to champion, to express something.
-- He felt a longing to fix his imagination on something.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Har-riet had been at Hartfield, as usual, soon after breakfast; and, after a time, had gone home to return again to dinner: she returned, and sooner than had been talked of, and with an agitated, hurried look, announcing something extraor-dinary to have happened which she was longing to tell.
-- Jane was quite longing to go to Ireland, from his account of things.'
-- My dear Emma, I am longing to talk to you.
-- She soon resolved, equally as a duty and a pleasure, to employ half an hour of this holiday of spirits in calling on Miss Fairfax. She ought to go and she was longing to see her; the resemblance of their present situations increasing 554 Emmaevery other motive of goodwill.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She suddenly felt a longing desire to speak to some one stronger than herself, and so get strength to sustain her surmised position with dignity and her lurking doubts with stoicism.
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