一、詳細釋義:


n.

渴望,熱望,欲望,請求 [U]


例句:

I have no desire to infringe upon your authority.

我沒有侵犯你權(quán)力的欲望。


例句:

They seem to have lost their desire for life.

他們似乎已喪失了對生活的熱望。


情欲,肉欲,性欲 [U]


例句:

She felt a surge of love and desire for him.

她對他聚生愛意,欲火攻心。


例句:

Teenage sex, for instance, may come not out of genuine desire but from a need to get love.

例如,青少年的性行為可能并不是源于真正的情欲,而是出于一種對愛的需要。


渴望的東西,渴望的人


例句:

When she agreed to marry him he felt he had achieved his heart's desire.

當她答應(yīng)嫁給他時,他感到終于得到了自己得心上人。


例句:

He brought me my heart's desire.

他給我?guī)砹宋倚睦锟释臇|西。


v.

渴望,希望,想要,請求 [I,T]


例句:

We all desire health and happiness.

我們都渴望健康和幸福。


例句:

The house had everything you could desire.

這房子你要什么有什么。


想與…發(fā)生性關(guān)系 [T]


例句:

He still desired her, and she did.

他仍能使她動情,她對他也是如此。


例句:

Actually, I don't want to desire her.

實際上,我不想與她發(fā)生關(guān)系。


二、詞義辨析:


desire,wish,hope,expect,want,long

這些動詞都有“希望”之意。 desire語氣較正式莊重,著重渴望的力量與熱切,常含有強烈的意圖和目的。 wish語氣較弱,多指難于實現(xiàn)或不可能實現(xiàn)的愿望。 hope指對愿望實現(xiàn)有一定信心的希望。 expect通常指有很大程度的把握,但仍含有預料之意,或預計某事或某行動的發(fā)生。 want一般指所想要的東西是切望得到的東西,能彌補實際需要。 long語氣強,指極殷切地盼望著,這種盼望側(cè)重于很難或不可能得到的東西。有時也指一般愿望,但含一定感情色彩。


三、參考例句:


We desire an immediate answer.

我們要求即刻的答復。


All men naturally desire knowledge.

人人生來渴求知識。


I often have a desire to urinate.

我經(jīng)常有尿意。


We all desire health and happiness.

我們都渴望健康和幸福。


The desire to look attractive is universal.

愛美之心,人皆有之。


We should bound our desire by reason.

我們應(yīng)該以理智限制欲望。


All human activity is prompted by desire.

所有人的行為都被欲望驅(qū)動著。


We all desire happiness and health.

我們都渴望幸福和健康。


We all?desire?health and happiness.

我們都渴望健康和幸福。


Always desire to learn something useful.

人應(yīng)始終有著學習新事物的渴望。