pine for

基本解释

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.
但我们就是如此——我们一直迫切渴望拥有自己的家，但我们受生理上的欲望驱使徘徊不前。
Having lived and worked on four continents, she is now based in New York—the depot of choice for those who pine for immortality.
她之前在四个大洲生活工作过，现在定居纽约。对于渴望永生不朽的人们来说，纽约将是个理想圣地。
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.
他们知道自己没有什么出路，只能在这磨人的条凳上坐上十个小时而动弹不得，如果说他们会想到什么，那也无非是哀叹命运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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