wistful

英 [ˈwɪstfl]

美 [ˈwɪstfl]

adj.  伤感的; (对已不可能发生之事)徒然神往的

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Collins.1 / BNC.19804 / COCA.15300

牛津词典

adj.

• 伤感的；（对已不可能发生之事）徒然神往的
  thinking sadly about sth that you would like to have, especially sth in the past that you can no longer have
  1. a wistful smile
     伤感的微笑

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED (因求而不得)失意的，伤感的，惆怅的
  Someone who iswistfulis rather sad because they want something and know that they cannot have it.
  1. I can't help feeling slightly wistful about the perks I'm giving up...
     我不禁对自己将要放弃的津贴感到有点儿不舍。
  2. He has a wistful look.
     他神情沮丧。

英英释义

adj

• showing pensive sadness
  1. the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty
  Synonym:pensive

双语例句

• In the morning, on opening his eyes, he beheld it regarding him with a wistful and hungry stare.
  早晨，他一睁开眼就觉察到这个畜生盯着他的如饥似渴的眼光。
• My friend Emily said she was happy for me, but wistful, too.
  我的朋友埃米莉（Emily）说，她为我高兴，不过也有点惋惜。
• In old age the two men wrote each other wistful letters.
  这两个人晚年时互通信函，诉说怀旧感伤之情。
• He looked so wistful as he went away, hearing the frolic and evidently having none of his own.
  他走的时候似乎闷闷不乐，若有所思；他听到你们在玩闹，而显然他自己没什么玩的。
• Those wistful little ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds.
  那些引人怀念的小广告被失恋的人收藏了起来。
• While most of us are content to live our lives with little more thana wistful gaze toward the heavens, others have bolder ambitions.
  当我们中的大多数人满足于带着些许渴望飞向天空的眼神生活的时候，有些人立下了更大胆的雄心壮志。
• 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。
• Suddenly it struck me that several of my close friends kept, somewhere in their houses, an image of me dissolving in laughter. I've always preferred a rather wistful, pensive image of myself.
  突然，我醒悟到几个自己的亲密朋友，在她们的家中的某个地方，都有一幅我融于大笑中的画面。
• His sole reference to Watergate was wistful.
  他对水门事件的唯一反应就是陷入沉思。
• 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。