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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The captain was among the most confident on board, but his confidence mainly arose from the longing desire he had to see Miss Mary happy.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have described myself as always having been imbued with a fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And perhaps dear Scarlett could findsome ease for her sorrow, as Melly is doing, by nursing our brave boys in the hospitals here and, of course, Mellyand I are longing to see the dear baby.
-- Melanie sensed her moodiness but,crediting it to longing for Charlie, did not try to engage her in conversation.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My wife saw your rampion from the window, and felt such a longing for it that she would have died if she had not got some to eat.'
-- She could not at first tell why she felt sad, but she became conscious at last of great longing to go home; then she knew she was homesick, al-though she was a thousand times better off with Mother Holle than with her mother and sister.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The zeal of the Professor, his earnest longing for success, had become part and parcel of my being.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the same time a longing for other air, and a yearning to be beyond the blind blank wall, made him feel as if he must go mad with the ardour of the desire.
-- The present is not a time or place,' Mr Pancks pursued, with a longing glance into his hat, where he kept his calculations, 'for entering upon the figures; but the figures are not to be disputed.
-- I have been longing and longing to tell you.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I know I do teaching those tiresome children nearly all day, when I'm longing to enjoy myself at home,' began Meg, in the complaining tone again.
-- It was a cheerful, hopeful letter, full of lively descriptions of camp life, marches, and military news, and only at the end did the writer's heart over-flow with fatherly love and longing for the little girls at home.
-- Out burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is a true Celestial City.
-- There was a simultaneous sigh, which created quite alittle gust, as the last hope fled, and the treat was ravished from their longing lips.
-- The knight wished intensely that he could free them, but he was poor and could only go by each day, watching for the sweet face and longing to see it out in the sunshine.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thou saw'st the murdered mate when tossed by pirates from the midnight deck; for hours he fell into the deeper midnight of the insatiate maw; and his murderers still sailed on unharmed while swift lightnings shivered the neighboring ship that would have borne a righteous husband to outstretched, longing arms.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A promise of secrecy was of course very dutifully given, but it could not be kept without difficulty; for the curiosity excited by his long absence burst forth in such very direct questions on his return as required some ingenuity to evade, and he was at the same time exercising great self-denial, for he was longing to publish his prosperous love.
-- They talked of his sister, his friends, his house, his fruit of everything but himself; yet Elizabeth was longing to know what Mrs. Gardiner thought of him, and Mrs. Gardiner would have been highly gratified by her niece's beginning the subject.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I cannot explain, by any possible energy of words, what a strange longing I felt in my soul upon this sight, breaking out sometimes thus: 'Oh that there had been but one or two, nay, or but one soul saved out of this ship, to have escaped to me, that I might but have had one companion, one fellow-creature, to have spoken to me and to have conversed with!'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unless Carrie submitted to a solemn round of industry and saw the need of hard work without longing for play, how was her coming to the city to profit them?
-- Drouet, for one, was lured as much by his longing for pleasure as by his desire to shine among his betters.
-- She was no sensualist, longing to drowse sleepily in the lap of luxury.
-- Her longing for consideration was not sufficiently powerful to move her to demand it.
-- The longing to be shielded, bettered, sympathised with, is one of the attributes of the sex.
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