desire

英[dɪˈzaɪə(r)]
美[dɪˈzaɪər]

基本释义

n.
愿望; 渴望; 肉欲; 渴望的人/事
v.
渴望; 被某人吸引; 产生性欲

词性变化

实用例句

a strong desire for power

强烈的权力欲

牛津词典

enough money to satisfy all your desires

足够的钱来满足你所有的欲望

牛津词典

She felt an overwhelming desire to return home.

她感到想回家的愿望难以遏制。

牛津词典

(formal)I have no desire (= I do not want) to discuss the matter further.

我不想再谈此事。

牛津词典

(formal)He has expressed a desire to see you.

他表示想见见你。

牛津词典

She felt a surge of love and desire for him.

她对他骤生爱意,欲火攻心。

牛津词典

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

当她答应嫁给他时,他感到终于得到了自己的心上人。

牛津词典

We all desire health and happiness.

我们都渴望健康和幸福。

牛津词典

The house had everything you could desire.

这房子你要什么有什么。

牛津词典

The medicine did not achieve the desired effect .

这种药未达到预期效果。

牛津词典

Fewer people desire to live in the north of the country.

想住在这个国家北方的人就更少了。

牛津词典

He still desired her.

他依然对她有欲望。

牛津词典

Food seems to have been available, even if the quality left much to be desired...

食品似乎能够买到了,虽然质量还远不尽如人意。

The selection of TV programmes, especially at the weekend, leaves a lot to be desired...

可供选择的电视节目,尤其是在周末的时候,还有大幅提升的空间。

He was extremely devious in his efforts to achieve his heart's desire.

他在设法得到自己的中意之物时会不择手段。

Transfer this sauce to a separate saucepan, if desired.

如果愿意的话,可以把这些调味汁倒入一只单独的长柄锅里。

Additional courses may be taken if desired...

如有需要可选修额外的课程。

It never occurred to him that she might not desire him.

他从没有想过她可能不想跟他上床。

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

例如,青少年的性行为可能并不是源于真正的情欲,而是出于一种对爱的需要。

But Fred was bored and desired to go home...

但弗雷德觉得很无聊,想要回家。

She had remarried and desired a child with her new husband...

她又结婚了,并且渴望和新任丈夫生个小孩。

They seem to have lost their desire for life.

他们似乎已丧失了对生活的热望。

I had a strong desire to help and care for people...

我非常渴望能够帮助和照顾他人。

This remains true and we have by now a good deal of experience in the matter.

到现在为止,这仍然是一条真理,也是我在工作中所积累的经验.

期刊摘选

He has a strong desire to meet you.

他极想见你.

《简明英汉词典》

She repressed her desire to mention his name.

她压制住自己没有提他的名字.

《简明英汉词典》

Everything she does is motivated only by a desire for money.

她所做的一切都是为了钱.

《简明英汉词典》

The tumultuous Cultural Revolution was chiefly responsible for the searing desire for change in China.

混乱的文化大革命是引起对中国发生变化的极度渴望的主要原因.

《简明英汉词典》

The people desire peace, security and happiness.

人民向往和平 、 安全与幸福.

《简明英汉词典》

He has a sincere desire to help you.

他是诚心诚意地想帮助你.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

真题例句

Readiness to take advantage of new opportunities will make it easier to create one's desired future.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

I have no desire to make millions of dollars.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

And when we retrieve information, both the desired and associated but irrelevant information is recalled.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

The desire for a future reward is overwhelming.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

It may shed light on people's desire to crack a secret.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Increasingly, companies are tapping into these desires directly through what has come to be known as gamification: essentially, turning work into a game.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

By contrast, a Danish tax on foods high in fats was abandoned a year after its introduction, amid claims that consumers were avoiding it by crossing the border to Germany to satisfy their desire for cheaper, fattier fare.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Human lives are governed by the desire to experience joy.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Similarly, the researchers say, being presented with junk food stimulates our desire to eat it.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

curb his desire for online gaming

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

She had a desire to help others.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

michigan's dominance in auto research and development is under attack from several states and countries which desire to replace our leadership in transportation.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

The journalist Ian Leslie, in his new and enjoyable book Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on it, insists that the answer to that last question is "Yes".

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Women struggle to say "no" in the workplace for similar reasons, including the desire to be liked by their colleagues.

2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Sternberg would argue it’s not love if you don’t call it love and if you don’t have some desire to maintain the relationship.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

For investors who desire low risk and guaranteed income,U.S. Government bonds are a secure investment because these bonds have the financial backing and full faith and credit of the federal government.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

But it is natural to desire to do so for special occasions

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

It still leaves much to be desired.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

It may not be able to yield the desired results

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

We tend to equate(等同于)happiness with freedom, but, as the psychotherapist and writer Adam Phillips has observed, without obstacles to our desires it's harder to know what we want, or where we're heading.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

The novelist Edward St Aubyn has a narrator remark of the very rich that, "not having to consider affordability, their desires rambled on like unstoppable bores, relentless (持续不断的) and whimsical(反复无常的)at the same time

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

million jobs lost in the last three months, there is urgent desire to boost the economy as quickly as possible.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

The move was prompted by OPEC's desire to raise prices by restricting supply and by its opposition to US support of Israel in the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Organizations cannot thrive without being focused on their desired end results any more than an individual can thrive without goals to provide a sense of purpose.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

To achieve a desired vision for your business, it is vital that you have a personal vision of where you are headed and what you value.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

Their desire to change America.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

If the farm is well managed and has enough land, and the desire to convert is sincere, a relationship can begin.

2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

One could therefore present Napoleon in terms of his desire to impress or Churchill in terms of his lonely gloom.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Sternberg would argue it's not love if you don't call it love and if you don't have some desire to maintain the relationship.

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Their desire for social drama is not—or not only—a way of distracting themselves from their school work or of driving adults crazy.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

While farming is often difficult for both the body and mine, Sanchez says he and many of his fellow young farmers are motivated by desire to set a new standard for agriculture.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

But it is useful to bear in mind that all such changes come from the technology and not some imagined desire by parents to keep their children under their wings.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Few people I know seem to have much desire or time to cook.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 语法填空 原文

From the earliest ages, they desire to help others, to share information and to participate in achieving common goals.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

He had a strong desire to free her family from trouble.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

I had a strong desire to reach in and play with the toy, but was held back thankfully by the shop window.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 单项选择 原文

If you desire physical activities, you can choose activities from swimming to horse riding.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

In 2004 , when my daughter Becky was ten, she and my husband, Joe, were united in their desire for a dog.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

In addition to being more in touch with the food she's eating, another joy comes from passing this knowledge and this desire for good food to her children.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

It doesn't always bring the desired result.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

Our students come from different backgrounds but have the same desire to learn online.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Over the years, Parisian cafes have fallen victim to changes in the French lifestyle-longer working hours, a fast food boom and a younger generation's desire to spend more time at home.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Perhaps this is what photos are for: to remind us that we all appreciate beauty, that we all share a common desire for pleasure, for connection, for something that is greater than us.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Publishers already in business, people who were owners of successful papers, had little desire to change the tradition.

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Raynor rolled all oveR&Desired a bath.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

Reading satisfies my desire to keep learning.

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

So if we send out a robot with the single instruction of fetching coffee, it will have a strong desire to secure success by disabling its own off switch or even killing anyone who might interfere with its task.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Success means getting personal desires satisfied.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

Therefore, there is the desire for their dorms to be replacement homes and not places to experience intellectual growth.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Whatever our circumstances, we generally still have dreams, hopes and desires—that little something more we want for ourselves and our loved ones.

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Religious associations began, for example, in the desire to secure the favor of overruling powers and to ward off evil influences; family life in the desire to gratify appetites and secure family perpetuity; systematic labor, for the most part, because of enslavement to others, etc.

出自-2009年考研翻译原文

However, Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind, and while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone, in reality we are continually faced with a question: “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that? ”Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire, Allen concluded : “ We do not attract what we want, but what we are.

出自-2011年考研翻译原文

Dare to be different, please don’t smoke!” pleads one billboard campaign aimed at reducing smoking among teenagers-teenagers, who desire nothing more than fitting in.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

Court, school organizations of amateurs, and the traveling actors were all rivals in supplying a widespread desire for dramatic entertainment; and no boy who went a grammar school could be ignorant that the drama was a form of literature which gave glory to Greece and Rome and might yet bring honor to England.

出自-2018年考研翻译原文

"Dare to be different, please don't smoke!" pleads one billboard campaign aimed at reducing smoking among teenagers-teenagers, who desire nothing more than fitting in.

2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

"Short-termism" or the desire for quick profits, has worsened in publicly traded companies, says the Bank of England's top economist Andrew Haldane.

2019年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It's a sad reality—our desire to avoid interacting with other human beings—because there's much to be gained from talking to the stranger standing by you.

2015年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state

  • 2. an inclination to want things;

    "a man of many desires"

  • 3. something that is desired

Verb
  • 1. feel or have a desire for; want strongly;

    "I want to go home now"

    "I want my own room"

  • 2. expect and wish;

    "I trust you will behave better from now on"

    "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise"

  • 3. express a desire for

同义词辨析

desire, wish, hope, expect, want, long

这些动词都有"希望"之意。

  • desire: 语气较正式庄重,着重渴望的力量与热切,常含有强烈的意图和目的。
  • wish: 语气较弱,多指难于实现或不可能实现的愿望。
  • hope: 指对愿望实现有一定信心的希望。
  • expect: 通常指有很大程度的把握,但仍含有预料之意,或预计某事或某行动的发生。
  • want: 一般指所想要的东西是切望得到的东西,能弥补实际需要。
  • long: 语气强,指极殷切地盼望着,这种盼望侧重于很难或不可能得到的东西。有时也指一般愿望,但含一定感情色彩。

反义词

vt.渴望;要求

hatedislikeabhor

其他释义

disappointdespair