yearn

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /jɜːn/    美 /jɝn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A strong desire or longing; a yearning, a yen.
    — Gibbs now said he wasn't going to pull any punches with Gary when he knew how jealous a man could get, so he also wanted to tell him that Phil Hansen was reputed to have a yearn for attractive ladies.
动词 v.
  1. To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for or to do something. also,figuratively,intransitive
    — All I yearn for is a simple life.
  2. Of milk: to curdle, especially in the cheesemaking process. Northern-England,Scotland,intransitive
  3. To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for or to do something.; To long for something in the past with melancholy or nostalgia. also,figuratively,intransitive,specifically
    — If I don’t go now, thought Charlotte, I shall have lost a chance which I shall eternally regret and yearn after.
  4. Of cheese: to be made from curdled milk. Northern-England,Scotland,intransitive
  5. Of music, words, etc.: to express strong desire or longing. intransitive
    — The music, yearning like a God in pain, / She scarcely heard: […]
  6. To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process. Northern-England,Scotland,transitive
  7. To have strong feelings of affection, love, sympathy, etc., toward someone. dated,intransitive
    — And Joſeph made haſte: for his bowels did yerne upon his brother: and he ſought where to weepe, and hee entred into his chamber, & wept there.
  8. To make (cheese) from curdled milk. Northern-England,Scotland,transitive
    — Also his Honour the Duke will accept ane of our Dunlop cheeses, and it sall be my faut if a better was ever yearned in Lowden.
  9. To be distressed or pained; to grieve; to mourn. intransitive,obsolete
    — My father’s and my uncle Toby’s hearts yearn’d with ſympathy for the poor fellow’s diſtreſs,—[…]
  10. Often followed by out: to perform (music) which conveys or say (words) which express strong desire or longing. transitive
  11. To have a strong desire or longing (for something or to do something). archaic,poetic,transitive
  12. To cause (someone) to have strong feelings of affection, love, sympathy, etc.; also, to grieve or pain (someone). obsolete,transitive
    — Well, ſhe laments Sir for it, that it would yern your heart to see it: […]

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
yearner yearnful yearning yearnly yearnsome yearny

词源

词源 1
The verb is derived from Middle English yernen, yern (“to express or feel desire; to desire, long or wish for; to lust after; to ask or demand for”) [and other forms], from Old English ġeornan (“to desire, yearn; to beg”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *girnijan (“to be eager for, desire”), from Proto-Germanic *girnijaną (“to desire, want”), from *gernaz (“eager, willing”) (from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to yearn for”)) + *-janą (suffix forming factitive verbs from adjectives).
The noun is derived from the verb.
词源 2
Probably either:
* a variant of earn (“to curdle, as milk”) (though this word is attested later), from Middle English erne, ernen (“to coagulate, congeal”) (chiefly South Midlands) [and other forms], a metathetic variant of rennen (“to run; to coagulate, congeal”), from Old English rinnan (“to run”) (with the variants iernan, irnan) and Old Norse rinna (“to move quickly, run; of liquid: to flow, run; to melt”), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”); or
* a back-formation from yearning (“(Scotland, archaic) rennet; calf (or other animal’s) stomach used to make rennet”).
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