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：
-- "And yet," said the young captain, "you must be longing to quit this vessel.
-- While John was thus ruminating and longing for a little light from the murky sky, the ladies, relying on him, slept in their little berths.
-- Robert and Mary were eagerly longing to see the solitary house where their father had so often wept at the thought of them.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So saying she gazed into his eyes, longing to see whether she could make any guess as to the explanation of his mo-tive in coming to her house.
-- A hungry longing to speak his mind out seemed to flash in the man's eyes, com-bined with an intense anger.
-- The fact is, he felt a longing to leave all this and go away go anywhere, if only it were far enough, and at once, without bidding farewell to anyone.
-- At other moments he felt a longing to go away somewhere and be alone with his thoughts, and to feel that no one knew where he was.
-- Our friend, Gania, belonged to the other class to the 'much cleverer' persons, though he was from head to foot permeated and saturated with the longing to be origi-nal.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Priam's son, great Hector of the gleaming helmet, com-manded the Trojans, and with him were arrayed by far the greater number and most valiant of those who were longing for the fray.
-- Again he aimed at Hector, for he was longing to hit him, and again his arrow missed, for Apollo turned it aside; but he hit Hector's brave charioteer Archeptolemus in the breast, by the nipple, as he was driving furiously into the fight.
-- If the best men at the ships were being cho-sen to go on an ambush and there is nothing like this for showing what a man is made of; it comes out then who is cowardly and who brave; the coward will change colour at every touch and turn; he is full of fears, and keeps shifting his weight first on one knee and then on the other; his heart beats fast as he thinks of death, and one can hear the chat-tering of his teeth; whereas the brave man will not change colour nor be frightened on finding himself in ambush, but is all the time longing to go into action if the best men were being chosen for such a service, no one could make light of your courage nor feats of arms.
-- He was longing to strike down Idome-neus, but ere he could do so Idomeneus smote him with his spear in the throat under the chin, and the bronze point went clean through it.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nay, throw aside that frown, Heyward, and in pity to my longing ears, suffer him to journey in our train.
-- The rich ornaments of his military attire had indeed been repeatedly handled by different in- dividuals of the tribes with eyes expressing a savage longing to possess the baubles; but before the customary violence could be resorted to, a mandate in the authoritative voice of the large warrior, already mentioned, stayed the uplifted hand, and convinced Heyward that they were to be reserved for some object of particular moment.
-- The latter did not, however, so much re-gret this circumstance, as it might enable him to retard the speed of the party; for he still turned his longing looks in the direction of Fort Edward, in the vain expectation of catching some sound from that quarter of the forest, which might denote the approach of succor.
-- For myself, and I say it with rev-erence to the ordering of Providence, it would be no great indulgence to be kept shut up in those mansions of which they preach, having a natural longing for motion and the chase.'
-- David, though he regarded his treasure with longing eyes, was constrained to answer, especially as the venerable father took a part in the inter-rogatories, with an interest too imposing to be denied.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw he was longing to get away to the bush, and at the end of the month I asked him what he intended to do.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He ended by longing for it, like a child for a thing which it has been denied.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, strange to say, this pity only increased his longing for her.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I began to think of this house of mine, of this fireside, of some of you, and with such thoughts came a longing that was pain.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alice sat down in it, rather uncomfortable in the silence, and longing for some one to speak.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I had just returned from a fatiguing journey, weary and longing for repose.
-- "Poor Ned is longing for everything that he can not have.
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