but for Shrek, the ordinary life of taking out the trash, cooking dinners and changing diapers soon has him longing for the adventures he once had.

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She looks up at the telephone wires, and she thinks about all the messages, unintelligible, full of human longing, going back and forth across those wires.

她看着电话线，想着那些莫名其妙的，充满了人类欲望的信息电线上来回踱着步。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So the excess and the longing are there, each trying to drive or satisfy the other.

这里的过多的重复和那盼望，都是在试着牵动和满足彼此。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's the story of Aengus' longing and quest for union with a fairy girl whom he desires.

是安古斯渴望，寻求,和一个仙女结合的故事。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But on the other hand these advances have also come at a cost. And in this story there's also a sense of longing for the freedom of life in the wild--the innocent, simple, uncomplicated life lived day to day without plans, without toil, in harmony with nature Edenic a somewhat Edenic existence.

但是，换个角度来看，人类付出了代价,才得到这些优点，在这部史诗中，同样存在着,对一种纯真，简单，纯粹生活的向往,每天生活中没有计划，辛劳，与自然和平相处,就像以前的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

This is ambition for a career, but it's also a desire for personal autonomy. For Frost, poetry is invested with a longing for autonomy in, well, both simple and complex senses.

这是事业心，也是一种,个人自由的渴望，对他来说，诗歌是,结合了自由的渴望，呈现出一种既简单又复杂的感觉。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选