The child was longing to see the blind woman again and to hear how she had liked the rolls.(海蒂很想再見到那位失明的老奶奶，聽聽她是多么喜歡吃面包卷。)

Oh, how Gerda's heart beat with anxiety and longing!(哦，格爾達(dá)的心因為焦慮和渴望而跳動得多么厲害啊！)

What a longing do I suffer!(我等得多辛苦啊！)

The children are longing for the holidays.(孩子們盼望著假期。)

They had been longing to have each other to themselves, apart from the world, but it seemed they never felt so keenly that they were still units in modern society.(他們一直渴望與對方獨處，遠(yuǎn)離世界，但似乎他們從未如此強(qiáng)烈地感到自己仍然是現(xiàn)代社會中的一員。)

We're longing for the summer holidays.(我們渴望著暑假的到來。)

They felt no longing for the little village sleeping in the distance beyond the majestic waste of water.(他們一點也不留戀那個遠(yuǎn)在寬闊的河流對面的小村莊。)

In the evening she would cry quietly, her heart bursting with longing to go home.(晚上，她會靜靜地哭泣，她的心充滿了回家的渴望。)

You probably sit right at the front of the class if you're longing for knowledge.(如果你渴望知識，你可能會坐在教室的最前面。)

He felt a longing for the familiar.(他渴望熟悉的氛圍。)