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Used in the negative, questions or statements of doubt.

動詞

long for (三人称単数 現在形 longs for, 現在分詞 longing for, 過去形および過去分詞形 longed for)

1. (transitive) To have a desire for (a thing または an event).

   Synonyms: yearn for, crave for, hanker for

   He was the object of my affection; I longed for him to notice me.

   Oh how I long for this pandemic to end so we can go dancing again.

2. (transitive) To miss (someone).
   • 1888, Tighe Hopkins, For Freedom, volume 2, page 104:

     “I will stay now, if you bid me,” she replied, as low. “See, I am going to my mother, who longs for me as I for her. I will not go unless you let me.”

   • 1982, Luise Mühlbach, chapter LIV, in F. Jordan, transl., Napoleon and Blücher: An Historical Novel, page 297:

     For some time he had not heard from his consort […] His heart longed for her and his child.

   • 2011, Edith Sitwell, Fanfare for Elizabeth:

     He remembered those long years before his marriage, when he had longed for her and she had resisted him […]

関連する語

• longing
• not long for

アナグラム

• for long, forlong