desire
美 [dɪˈzaɪr]
英 [dɪˈzaɪə(r)] 
- n.欲望;渴望;愿望;情欲
- v.渴望;期望;想望;被(某人)吸引
- 网络要求;希望;心愿
词形变化
第三人称单数:desires 现在分词:desiring 过去式:desired 同义词
英汉双解
1. | [c][u] 愿望;欲望;渴望a strong wish to have or do sth |
| enough money to satisfy all your desires 足够的钱来满足你所有的欲望 |
| a strong desire for power 强烈的权力欲 |
| She felt an overwhelming desire to return home. 她感到一种难以遏制的想回家的愿望。 |
| I have no desire(= I do not want) to discuss the matter further. 我不想再谈此事。 |
| He has expressed a desire to see you. 他表示想见见你。 |
2. | [u][c] ~ (for sb) 情欲;肉欲;性欲a strong wish to have sex with sb |
| She felt a surge of love and desire for him. 她对他骤生爱意,欲火攻心。 |
3. | [c][ususing] 想望的人;渴望的事物a person or thing that is wished for |
| 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。 |
1. | 渴望;期望;想望to want sth; to wish for sth |
| We all desire health and happiness. 我们都渴望健康和幸福。 |
| The house had everything you could desire. 这房子你要什么有什么。 |
| The medicine did not achieve the desired effect . 这种药未达到预期效果。 |
| Fewer people desire to live in the north of the country. 想住在这个国家北方的人更少。 |
2. | ~ sb 被(某人)吸引;对(某人)产生性欲to be sexually attracted to sb |
| He still desired her. 他依然渴望拥有她。 |
习惯用语
leave a lot, much, something, etc. to be desired
还有许多(或一些等)需要改进的地方to be bad or unacceptable
英汉解释
v. | 2. 要求某事 (something);要求做到 (that);要求[请求]某人做某事 |
n. | |
英英解释
例句
The only really beautiful women I know are, like you, endlessly preoccupied by the desire to be valued for themselves.
我认识的那些真正非常漂亮的女性跟你一样,都一心希望人们能认可她们的内在价值。
taking poor Gouvernail seriously and making a fuss about him, the last thing he would desire or expect.
瞧你对古韦内尔顶真的样子,对他那么大惊小怪,这可是他最不希望的。
I used to be very ashamed of my own sexual desire, but now I no longer am.
过去我曾以自己的性渴望为耻,不过现在我不再这样了。
Bryant wrote on his official website Tuesday that despite his considerable consternation, he had no desire to be traded.
科比在自己的官方网站说自己觉得太惊讶和奇怪了,他从来没有想要去交易。
And these memories running through his mind evoked no feelings in him, no pity, ill-will or desire of any kind.
这些记忆贯穿在他心中激起任何感情,可惜没有恶意,或将任何欲望。
A man of practice stays in tranquility and leisure and reduces desire to be contented.
一个独自修行的人,他好闲静处,少欲知足;
She seemed to have no desire to go there; besides, her clothes were not good enough.
她似乎不想去那里,再者,她的衣服也不够好。
Let us leave to one side what we might in fact think of a desire to which even this outcome is not indifferent.
让我们将欲望的一般看法先搁置一旁,虽然它跟这件事情的结果不是没有关系。
Passion An intense, burning desire to dig deep into a particular area is often a sign that you'll find success there.
激情。想要深入某一特定领域的强烈愿望通常是你将在这一领域有所建树的迹象。
Anxiety lies in this fundamental relationship that the subject is in with what I have called up to now the desire of the Other.
焦虑就在于这个基本的关系,生命的主体跟我迄今所谓的大它者的欲望,相处的关系。
They are in high mood, and have no desire to see anybody spoil the atmosphere of the party.
他们的情绪十分高涨,不愿意看到有人破环聚会的气氛。
And the fruit of your soul's desire has gone from you, and all things delicate and shining have come to an end and will never again be seen.
巴比伦哪,你所贪爱的果子离开了你;你一切的珍馐美味,和华美的物件也从你中间毁灭,决不能再见了。
Because one of the core principles of SOA is reuse, developers have to let go of the typical developer desire to build everything.
由于SOA的核心原则之一是重用,所以开发人员必须放弃传统开发人员希望构建一切的想法。
They also said they believe Israel has no desire to seek peace and will follow the "path of destruction. "
他们也相信以色列没有意愿寻求和平,会按著「破坏的行径」而行。
she had reasons for believing that there was a young sister living , and her greatest desire was , to help that sister.
她有理由相信这家还有一个小妹妹活着。她的最大愿望便是帮助那小妹妹。
You might buy her a whip, but if she does not like pain and has no desire to give you any, the gift is useless.
您可能会购买她的一党党鞭,但如果她不喜欢疼痛,也没有愿望,给你任何,礼品是没用的。
Now you are ready to fulfill the last step of your desire, that of building a body of many sounds from your harp.
现在你准备去完成你之渴望的最后一个步骤--从你的竖琴上构筑一个拥有许多灵魂的形体。
So I desire to engage an exercise and I value exercise extrinsically, not for its own, sake but as a means to something beyond it.
所以我运动,是因为我看重它的外在价值,而不是它本身,是把它作为达成另一目的一种方式。
now , i am getting to understand and realize that you are the one who i desire to stand by your side to the end of all my life .
现在,我渐渐的明白和意识到你就是我那渴望去站在你身旁至死不渝的唯一。
The move had been widely predicted, but such was the midfielder's desire to return home he joined earlier than had been expected.
大家都预料到了这次转会,但是西蒙尼回家的渴望让这个转会来得比大家预料的都早。
Can you reasonably desire that I should make you one of the ministers of my court?
你能理直气壮地要求我封你为朝廷大臣吗?
Men, in the desire to increase their individual power and to satisfy their passions, will necessarily clash.
因为人们都欲求增加个体的力量,满足自己的激情,所以人们之间必然发生倾轧。
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
我希望能再多和您来往。
There is no such desire on the part of the growing pig to limit its rate of fat production.
生长猪没有必要限制它的脂肪生长速度。
Now the desire for those things had left her, and she could not understand how she had ever wanted them.
现在这些美好的愿望都已化为泡影,她不理解当初为什么会向往那些东西。
The Israeli desire that we run diplomatic interference while it strangled an Egyptian army trapped after the cease-fire.
以色列要把停火之后被包围的一个埃及集团军置于死地,却希望我们进行外交干预。
I would live as narrow as he could desire.
我将照他所能希望的尽量节俭过活。
Young men and women must quench their desire to marry early in life.
青年男女一定要克制早婚的欲望。
I burn with a desire to know whose children we can be.
我急于要知道,咱们到底是谁的孩子。
My fixed desire was to seek and find a good and intelligent woman, who I could love.
我坚定不移的愿望是,要寻找和发现一个可以爱的善良而聪明的女人。
Their joy at being once again united with their families did not overcome a stern desire to engage the enemy at the earliest moment.
他们与家人重新团聚的欢乐心情并未胜过他们要尽早与敌人周旋的坚定愿望。
Each of them had many years of experience as well as the desire to put that experience to work.
他们都有多年的实际经验,也愿意把这些经验用于工作中。
We must endeavour to satisfy you, that, at least, amongst our errors, we preserve Christian charity, and a desire to assist our brethren.
我们必须使你相信,即使我们有过错,我们至少要保持基督教徒慈悲为怀,以及帮助我们兄弟的心愿。
The defence and salvation of the body by daily bread is still a study, a religion, and a desire.
每日用面包来维持和拯救自己的躯体依然是一门学问,一种信仰和一种欲望。
I had no room for desire, except it was of things which I had not, and they were but trifles, though indeed of great use to me.
我心里已经没有贪求之念,除了少数我缺乏的东西;这些东西虽然对我有用,然而都是微不足道的东西。
Mrs. Weaver knows nothing about baseball, but has often expressed a desire to see the great American game.
韦弗太太对于棒球是一无所知,不过常常表示愿意看看这种伟大的美国的竞技。
He had merely been a sailor from whim and a desire to spite his friends.
他之所以当了一名水手,只是为了他的怪癖,并想和他的朋友们赌一口气。
He did not want-he should not desire to be the master.
他不想--也不该巴望当主子。
Do you know, I think I'd give up every ambition, every desire in me for the chance to be a perfect priest?
你是否知道我打算摒弃一切野心、各种私欲,就为了做一个完美的教士?
Her only worry was his often-expressed desire to see her.
她唯一的不安是他三番五次表示想见她。
Nature had already gifted me with the love of pleasure, and the desire of gain and power.
我生来就追求享乐和权势,唯利是图。
She looked so young and vulnerable that he felt a great desire to protect her.
她看上去年纪小又娇弱,他很愿意保护她。
I may forget love of my own life in the desire to kill you.
我就会置自己的生死于度外,要杀死你的。
Now, I have no violent desire of any of these things; I have a passion for friends.
现在,我对这些均无渴望,却热忱地希望结交朋友。
It bewildered her that she should desire to place her hands on that sunburned neck.
使她弄不懂的是,自己竟会想把双手搁在这被太阳晒黑的脖子上。
Desire to see her surged up within him.
想见到她的愿望在他的内心越来越强烈。
Here I had all the liberty and all the opportunity to be gay appear in company that I could desire.
在这里我有一切的自由和机会恣意享乐,与我所喜欢的人们一块逍遣。
The talk was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.
她们的谈话恰如那雪白的衣裙一样清爽,象她们单纯的眼睛一样天真无邪。
I learned a method of drinking water that made me feel full temporarily whether I had a desire for water or not.
我学会了一种喝水的办法,不管我想不想喝水这种办法都能使我暂时感到不饿。
He was fired with desire to become the best student in his class.
他满怀雄心壮志,要成为班上最好的学生。
I said this out of a desire to speak two more sentences, rather than as an explanation.
我这么说是想再讲两句话,而不是为了作解释。
Think of all the Lord Jesus has done for you, and it should fill your heart with a great desire to serve Him!
想想主耶稣为你做的一切,难道这不会使你的心充满了渴慕要来服侍他?
A genial business studies graduate from humble origins (his father drove a crane), Mr Hogan says he had no burning desire to leave GE.
霍根出身贫寒(他父亲是一名起重机驾驶员),他性情温和,大学时念的是商业。霍根表示,当时他并不急于离开通用电气。
Ajax have spoken this week about their desire to extend the hitman's contract, but rumours linking him with a summer departure persist.
阿贾克斯本周声称他们渴望能够延长和亨特拉尔的合同,不过关于他夏季就会转会的传闻却一直不休。
But, when I look at my desk now, I feel no desire to deface it as it means nothing to me at all.
可是,当我看着眼前这张桌子时,却毫无在上面涂鸦的兴致,因为它对我来说毫无意义。
Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples' idea of the kind of society that they should strive after.
渴望将世界推向某一方向,改变别人对理想社会的概念。
All pross is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
世人莫不怀着一种与生俱来的欲望,要把支出超过收入,此乃一切进步的动力。
Mr. Assange said the source who leaked the documents was motivated by a desire 'to call attention to a number of these incidents. '
阿桑奇说,泄漏文件的消息来源的动机是为了引起人们对若干此类事件的关注。
He seemed to have no desire to go there, besides, his clothes were not good enough.
他似乎并不想去那儿,除此之外,他的衣服也不好。
The poor husband begged in a vain desire to let him in, but the angry wife refused to open the door.
那可怜的丈夫徒劳地想求他老婆让他进去,但他的那位生气的老婆就是不给开门。
Desire to see things, as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity.
有志按事物的原貌来观察理解事物;有心寻找确凿的事实,收集储存以飨后人。
We are now in a bad mood and, of course , have no desire to see our football team lose the game.
我们现在情绪很糟,当然更不愿意看到我们足球队在比赛中失败。
Global warming or climate change is only a symptom of our deep-seated desire to consume, consume and consume.
全球变暖或气候变化只不过是我们根深蒂固的消费、消费、再消费欲望的症状。
It's a displacement activity (fiddling) because you've made him a little nervous, plus an unconscious desire to remove his clothes.
这是一个(无足轻重的)转移注意力的行为,因为你让他有些紧张,使得他无意识地去弄衣服。
The degradation of infrastructure, institutions and, most important, human capital, creates a desire to tune out of it all.
基础设施、公共机构和人力资本(这也是最重要的)的老化,让人们想把这一切撇开不管。
A string of men will have the desire to break free, and has a magnetic field can give the illusion of free men and an eternal temptation.
一根绳子会让男人有挣脱的欲望,而一个磁场却能给男人自由的假象和一个永恒的诱惑。
I commend you for your understanding and desire to help in the reconstruction of Iraqi's country.
我谢谢你的理解和帮助伊拉克的重建的愿望。
desire to harm others or to see others suffer; extreme ill will or spite.
恶意期望伤害别人或看到别人受苦;
Ailin's father accepts Ailin's desire to keep her feet unbound, despite the fact it will make it harder for her to marry.
爱林的父亲接受爱林的愿望,把自己的脚未绑定,尽管事实上它将使更难她求婚。
I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you.
我知道你们是亚伯拉罕的子孙,你们却想要杀我,因为你们心里容不下我的道。
We had no more fervent desire in the summer of 1973 than to end the Cambodian war.
到了一九七三年夏天,我们最热切向望的事莫过于结束柬埔寨战争。
I desire you to go at once.
我想要你立刻去。
Their lack of desire for privacy probably results from their history as a nation.
他们无静居独处的念头,也许是本国历史发展的结果。
Mrs. Hatch showed from the first an almost touching desire for Lily's approval.
从一开始;哈琪太太就千方百计表示她希望得到丽莉的好感。
I experienced a sudden desire to look into the room where I was born.
我突然心血来潮,想看看我出生的房间。
But they possessed no desire for a knowledge of the picture as a whole.
但是他们对搞清楚事情的全貌却毫无愿望。
His plan supposes a universal desire for peace.
他的计划意味着全世界都有和平的愿望。
To escape was her great and immediate desire.
逃躲是她要马上达到的愿望。
This desire suddenly came upon Tom one day.
有一天,这种欲望忽然来到了汤姆心头。
That plays a very profound part in influencing people's desire for a belief in God.
这对人们产生信仰上帝的要求起了异常微妙的影响。