yearn的过去分词是：yearned。yearn的词语用法是v.(动词)yearn是不及物动词，常与介词for连用，也可接动词不定式作目的状语。yearn【近义词】desire渴望。
一、详尽释义点此查看yearn的详细内容
二、双解释义
三、词典解释
1.渴望;渴求;向往
If someoneyearns for something that they are unlikely to get, they want it very much.
e.g. He yearned for freedom...
他渴望自由。
e.g. I yearned to be a movie actor.
我曾渴望成为一名电影演员。
四、例句
He yearned to return to his native land.
他渴望回到故乡。
He yearned for a sight of the old, familiar faces.
他渴望一见那些熟悉的老面孔。
The child yearns much toward his friends.
那小孩很想念他的朋友。
They yearned for his return.
他们盼望着他回来。
Her heart yearned for the starving, homeless children.
她的心怜悯那些挨饿的无家可归的儿童。
五、词汇搭配
六、经典引文
Phil Mansen was reputed to have a yearn for attractive ladies.
出自：N. MailerAn agony of loneliness made me..yearn for company.
出自：D. du MaurierThe boy yearns to be like his idealized father.
出自：B. SpockUrbaal lay..dreaming of the slave girl whom he yearned for with such passion.
出自：J. A. MichenerBetty was beginning to pine and to yearn after Beuno.
出自：A. T. Ellis七、词语用法
yearn的相关近义词
desire、crave、long、pine、hanker、ache、thirst、want、covet、hunger、for、hope、long for、pine for、hope for、wish for、wish、yen、languish
yearn的相关临近词
years、yearly、yearning、yearnful、yearn for、yearningly、yearnfully、yearned-for、yearn towards、yearn for rest、yearn for freedom、yearning situation