Time is a river, of which memory is the water. Oh my friend, what I scoop up from the river is all yearning of you.

时间是河、记忆如水，朋友，我从河里捧起来的都是对你的思念。

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And without — the frontier warfare; the yearning of a boy, cast ashore upon a desert of newness and ugliness and sordidness, for all that is chastened and old, and noble with traditions.

一场没有硝烟的美丑之战；一个被抛掷在陌生、丑陋、卑鄙的荒原上的孩子，对一切纯洁、古老、高尚的传统的渴望。

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My yearning for Perry must have been written all over my face.

对佩里的想念之情想必一定书写在脸上了。

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He was as moody and skinny as a boy, but he had a power that drew all the yearning in the place toward him, including hers.

NEWYORKER: She��s the One

It is another kind of comfort that all this nostalgic yearning offers too - that and a communal affection for America's grandest and story-filled city.

BBC: Brand new old New York

Rivers flowing to the sea, a flame reaching upward, a bird homing: these movements all represent objects yearning to be their true selves, to achieve their true state.

NEWYORKER: The Region of Unlikeness