desire
英検2級欲望・願望
意味
- …を切望する,要求する,希望する
- …に性的欲望を感じる
- 願望,欲望;要望,要求
- 《通例単数形で》望みのもの
- (…に対する)性的欲望《+for+名》
例文
He doesn't manifest much desire to win the game.
彼は試合に勝ちたいという熱望を明らかに示さない。
Somehow I just can't work up any desire to study.
なんか全然勉強する気になれないな。
Pre-schoolers are not targets of sexual desire.
幼稚園児は性欲の対象ではない。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English desir, desire (noun) and desiren (verb), from Old French desirer, desirrer, from Latin dēsīderō (“to long for, desire, feel the want of, miss, regret”), apparently from de- + sidus (in the phrase de sidere, "from the stars") in connection with astrological hopes. Compare consider and desiderate. The verb, along with Old Norse derived want (verb), has mostly replaced native will in modern English.