yearning
意味
- あこがれ,思慕,熱望:《yearning for+名》…へのあこがれ
- あこがれの,熱望の
例文
Tom is yearning to live in the country.
トムは田舎暮らしに憧れてるんだ。
He thought of them yearning for fame.
彼は彼らが名声に憧れていると思った。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English yerning, from Old English ġierning, ġierninge. Equivalent to the gerund (yearn + -ing). yearn comes from Proto-West Germanic *girnijan, from Proto-Germanic *girnijaną, from *gernaz (“eager, willing”) + *-janą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to yearn for”). By surface analysis, yearn + -ing.