desire是什么意思

desire

英 [d?'za??] 美 [d?'za??]

desire 渴望

來自法語，來自拉丁語de sidere, 星星，星辰，詞源同consider, sidereal. 來自古代的占星術，通過星辰移位來推測人世變遷，期望星辰按理想的狀態運行，引申詞義渴望。參照disaster.

desire: desire: [13] The underlying etymological meaning of desire is something of a mystery. Like consider, it comes ultimately from a base related to Latin sīdus ‘star’, but the links in the semantic chain that would lead us back from ‘desire’ to ‘star’ have not all been successfully reconstructed. It does at least seem, though, that before the word denoted ‘wanting’, it signified ‘lack’. English acquired it via Old French desirer, but has also gone back directly to the past participle of Latin dēsīderāre for desideratum ‘something desirable’ [17].
=> consider, sidereal
desire (v.): early 13c., from Old French desirrer (12c.) "wish, desire, long for," from Latin desiderare "long for, wish for; demand, expect," original sense perhaps "await what the stars will bring," from the phrase de sidere "from the stars," from sidus (genitive sideris) "heavenly body, star, constellation" (but see consider). Related: Desired; desiring.
desire (n.): c. 1300, from Old French desir, from desirer (see desire (v.)); sense of "lust" is first recorded mid-14c.

1. The desire to be a mother may creep up on you unexpectedly.: 你會不知不覺地產生想當母親的渴望。

4. The sight of him entering a room could flood her with desire.: 見到他進入房間會讓她心中欲望澎湃。

5. He was extremely devious in his efforts to achieve his heart's desire.: 他在設法得到自己的中意之物時會不擇手段。