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词汇 hanker
释义 hanker
verb[ I ]
us/ˈhæŋ·kər/
to have a strong desire for something:
I’ve been hankering for a hot dog.
[ + to infinitive ]I always hankered to go to Nashville.

hankering


noun[ C ]us/ˈhæŋ·kər·ɪŋ/
She’s got a hankering to write plays.

Examples of hanker


hanker
There are real pleasures which accrue from country life and living and working in the country, as indeed the townsman knows and hankers after.
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He was quite clearly hankering again for the old days of opposition when he attacked this side.
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There are in the possession of hankers enormous quantities of securities of various kinds to which they have no legal title.
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We have hankers, captains of industry, barristers and other learned professions.
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We understand the reasons why that must be done, as do foreign exchange dealers and hankers, but the mass of ordinary people in this country do not.
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Presumably we have civil servants indulging in negotiations with companies about participation on a straight old-fashioned bargaining basis, the kind of bargaining which one employs merchant hankers to do.
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The fat does not last and you cannot keep on larding it on, although international financiers and monied interests in this country have hankered after the past.
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They are hankering after the means-tested society.
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They are hankering after a common currency.
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By 1999, however, only the security services still hankered after key escrow.
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Subsequently, the pilot resumes his career piloting the large passenger planes he had been hankering after.
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To those who hankered after the glamour of the pre-war seasons he was a minor figure among international maestros.
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The same sense is expressed by emotions such as craving or hankering.
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They hanker after a largely mythical 19th century vision of laissez-faire.
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We should not hanker after a parental golden age—it never existed—nor should we return to the practice of giving children so-called discipline.
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