Wistful

(a.) Longing; wishful; desirous.

(a.) Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative.

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• Tarzan shook his head, and an expression of wistful and pathetic longing sobered his laughing eyes. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Gerald's father had looked wistful, to break the heart: but not this last terrible look of cold, mute Matter. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The title gave him a sudden start, too; and he could not avoid casting a wistful glance round the room. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The next day however, he felt wistful and yearning. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Before quite leaving her he threw upon her face a wistful glance, as if he had misgivings on the generosity of forsaking her thus. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I ordered him to set me down, and lifting up one of my sashes, cast many a wistful melancholy look towards the sea. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• His eyes looked at me again with the painful expression of inquiry, so wistful, so vacant, so miserably helpless to see. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The sharpness in her eye turned to a wistful longing as she met Margaret's soft and friendly gaze. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• His dim watery eyes were fixed on my face with an expression of vacant and wistful inquiry very painful to see. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The old man clasped the skirt of his long coat with his disengaged hand, and directed a wistful look at Fledgeby. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It was Juliet herself; pale and trembling she stood, a lamp in her hand, on the threshold of the dungeon, looking at me with wistful countenance. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Frederick held her hand in his, and looked with wistful anxiety into her face, reading there more care and trouble than she would betray by words. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• You are so changed, I sometimes think-- there Amy stopped, with a half-timid, half-wistful look, more significant than her unfinished speech. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I turned a wistful eye towards the old gentleman who had left me. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• If you rouse her or scold her, she gives you a look, half wistful, half reckless, which sends you away as queer and crazed as herself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• If her wistful cast of physiognomy is not gone, no more is her careless smile. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Only, when she thinks I am not about to see her, her face grows very sad, and, oh, so wistful. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• I used to find it so,' answered Mr Boffin, with a wistful look. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He looked so wistful as he went away, hearing the frolic and evidently having none of his own. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

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