pine for

基本解釋

But that's the way we are - hard-wired to pine for a family of our own, yet biologically bound for our desire to wander.
但我們就是如此——我們一直迫切渴望擁有自己的家，但我們受生理上的欲望敺使徘徊不前。
Having lived and worked on four continents, she is now based in New York—the depot of choice for those who pine for immortality.
她之前在四個(gè)大洲生活工作過，現(xiàn)在定居紐約。對於渴望永生不朽的人們來說，紐約將是個(gè)理想聖地。
Fixed for ten hours on a comfortless bench, they know no way of occupying themselves, and if they think at all it is to whimper about hard luck and pine for work.
他們知道自己沒有什麼出路，衹能在這磨人的條凳上坐上十個(gè)小時(shí)而動(dòng)彈不得，如果說他們會(huì)想到什麼，那也無非是哀歎命運(yùn)的不幸或者渴望能有份工可作。

The Okefenokee,which is already nearly choked with plants, would probably fill in,dry up, and become just another cypress and pine forest were it not for range fires that come along every once in awhile and burn out decayed vegetation.
She finally reached a huge pine tree, so tall it could be seen for many miles around.

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