wistful

释义

adj.(因求而不得)失意的，伤感的

词态变化

副词 :   wistfully ; 名词 :   wistfulness ;

实用场景例句

The thought of relinquishing these benefits leaves me with a faintly wistful sensation.

想到要放弃这些福利，我心中泛起一丝淡淡的惆怅。

金山词霸

Her eyes held a wistful sadness.

她的眼中含着一丝忧郁的哀伤。

金山词霸

a wistful glance

忧郁的一瞥

金山词霸

She smiled wistfully.

她忧郁地微笑。

金山词霸

"If only I could see her again," he whispered wistfully.

“要是我能再见到她就好了。”他惆怅地低语道。

金山词霸

The poor mother has wistful reminiscences of her lost youth.

这个贫穷的母亲怅惘地回忆她已经逝去的青春.

期刊摘选

We dare not look at her wistful eyes.

我们不敢看她那双充满渴望的眼睛.

期刊摘选

Your wistful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.

你热切的脸,如夜雨,搅扰着我的梦魂.

期刊摘选

He slipped out under the cover of " The Holy City ", followed by Malvina's wistful eye.

在 “ 圣城 ” 的掩护下, 在马尔维娜渴望的眼神注视下,他溜了出来.

辞典例句

I hope I am not wistful thinking again.

我希望这一切不再是空想.

期刊摘选

He looked out upon her with his mind's eye in the most wistful manner.

他带着无限哀怨的心情思念着她.

辞典例句

He felt wistful and then smiled to himself.

他感到有些怀念,暗地里还微微一笑.

辞典例句

You may feel wistful or sentimental after the first eclipse, July 7, but stay tuned.

在7号的月蚀之后你可能会留恋和感伤, 但是请安住于当下的转变.

期刊摘选

She had a last wistful look at the house.

她留恋地最后朝那房子看了一眼.

辞典例句

She was not sad, only wistful, blanched.

她并不伤心, 只是愁闷,苍白无力.

辞典例句

Far from giving Ella the sack, she had developed the some wistful respec for her.

她不但没有解雇埃拉, 反而渐渐地产生出对埃拉的真诚的敬意.

辞典例句

Mrs. Ainsworth turned to me and though she was smiling her eyes were wistful.

安斯沃思太太转向我,虽然微笑着,可眼中流露出思念之情.

期刊摘选

Stuant's wistful tranquility and almost saintlike aloofness were hard nuts to crack, even for Sister Agatha.

斯图阿特的恼人的平静和几乎象圣徒那样的孤独很难对付, 即使阿加莎修女也不例外.

辞典例句

His wistful eyes gazing at the shop made this whole meeting of men so pitiful.

他苦闷的眼睛望着那间小店,使得这整个人类的集会变成可悲悯的.

期刊摘选

Willowherb, tender and wistful , like a pink sunset cloud, was not slow to follow.

报春花娇娜多姿, 犹如粉红色的晚霞, 紧接着亮相.

辞典例句

She was a little wistful or sad, and even a little bitter.

她有点怅惘和哀伤, 甚至有点痛苦.

辞典例句

The child looked with wistful eyes at the toys in the window.

小孩看着橱窗里的玩具,眼里露出渴求的神情.

期刊摘选

The statue has a gentleness, an ambience, a wistful elegance.

那尊雕像具有一种柔和 、 一种独特格调 、 一种忧郁沉思的雅致.

《简明英汉词典》

A child stood seeing with wistful eyes at the toys shop window.

小孩站在橱窗前渴望地看着那些玩具.

期刊摘选

He looked so wistful as he went away.

他恋恋不舍地走了.

辞典例句

He died at the end of this wistful and elegiac novel.

在这本情意绵绵的哀歌式小说的末尾,他结束了一生.

辞典例句

真题例句

Instead of casting a wistful glance backward at all the species we've left in the dust I.Q.-wise, it implicitly asks what the real costs of our own intelligence might be.

2009年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

英英释义

Adjective

1. full of longing or unfulfilled desire;

"those wistful little ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds"

2. showing pensive sadness;

"the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"