英 [ˈkreɪvɪŋ] 美 [ˈkreɪvɪŋ]
n. 渴望；热望
v. 渴望；恳求（crave 的 ing 形式）
复数cravings
crave /kreɪv/ CET6+ TEM8 [ craving craved craves ]
及物动词 If you crave something, you want to have it very much. 渴望得到
There may be certain times of day when smokers crave their cigarette.
一天中可能有那么几次吸烟者特别想叼上烟。
可数名词 渴求
...a craving for sugar.
…对糖的渴求。
an intense desire for some particular thing
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MMT can decrease the degree of craving for heroin and behavioursof hunting for drug and drug taking.
美沙酮维持治疗有助于减低吸毒患者海洛因的渴求程度,减少觅药和用药行为。
强烈的愿望
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Chapter 2This chapter gives the description of the generality from the contents of their works. It probes into the reason why from their eyes Shanghai presents a continuous line of secularity and craving for material life.
第二章，从内容上对海派女作家的共性特征进行了描述，考察为什么上海在她们眼里呈现出一脉相承的世俗性和欲望性。
参考来源海派女作家笔下的上海生活
渴望；热望
渴望；恳求（crave的ing形式）
This craving is, of course, the bane of many ex-alcoholics' existence.
这种渴望当然是许多老酒徒生活的烦恼之源。
Don't try to ignore your afternoon snack craving.
不要忽视你对午后点心的渴望。
Escaping our craving for paper will be anything but an easy affair.
摆脱我们对纸张的渴望绝非易事。
The joined arcs made the shape of birth and craving And the welded-open shape kept mouthing O.
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The riffraff in their midst felt a gluttonous craving; and then the Israelites wept and said, 'If only we had meat to eat!
这些乌合之众是贪食者;,然后犹太人边哭边说，“要是有肉吃就好了！
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Well, I have a craving for Italian right now.
嗯…我现在渴望着吃意大利菜。
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For Noah, talk of the Icee game triggered a craving for the sweet, fizzy, frozen drink.
Africans are emerging from a subsistence economy and have a craving for consumer goods.
But this dream, to Obama, seems credulous and shallow, a destructive craving for weightlessness.