[英][dza(r)][美][ dza?r]
vt.渴望; 希望; 要求; 請求;
n.欲望; 願望; 希望; 請求;
vi.願望; 有希望; 期望; 想望;
例句
1 They are driven on partly by a wish for democracy, but also by a desire for national self-assertion.
驅動他們的壹方面是對民主的期待，另壹方面是對民族自立的渴望。
2 “ The desire to keep on making something better and better is terrific, of course,” he adds.
他說：“完美主義者希望把每件事都做得更好，這當然是好事。
3 But through a desire to sit down too soon, one may arrest the very March of the human race.
但是，由於過早地要求坐下，人們甚至要停止人類前進的步伐。