At last Jack began to hanker after a little excitement

后来，杰克又渴望找点儿刺激了。

Hanker after [for] affection

渴望获得爱情

Young people hanker for knowledge

年轻人渴望获得知识。

Firework was first played to dispel ghosts and evil spirits and hanker for auspiciousness and happiness.

燃放爆竹风俗最早起因于驱鬼除邪，祈求一年的吉祥顺利。

They will never be satisfied.; hanker for more

他们得陇望蜀,永远无法使他们心满意足。

I don’t hanker after squirrel meat

我不喜欢吃松鼠肉。

Furthermore, if they still hanker after adventures, they will send some of their troops to invade and harass China’s frontiers

再则，假如他们还想冒险的话，派出一部分兵力侵扰中国的边境，也不是不可能的。

Only lazybones and mediocre persons could hanker after the days of messing together

只有懒汉庸才才会留恋那大锅饭的年代。

Hanker for fame [praise]

追求名声[赞美]

As for the chestnuts, she had pretended to hanker after them to make him forget the junket, for fear of a repetition of that incident involving maple-dew tea which had landed Qianxue in trouble.

自己原不想栗子吃的,只因怕为酥酪又生事故,亦如茜雪之茶等事,是以假以栗子为由,混过宝玉不提就完了

||1:Second, politicians are more sophisticated than they appear on the stump.||2:Many are secretly embarrassed by the flame-grilled drivel they have to serve up to partisan audiences.||3:Plenty hanker for the days when divided government meant that the centrists in both parties hammered out reforms together and ignored the frothing fringes.||4:But all of them can count votes—very accurately, these days.||5:And all tend to reward their supporters: to “dance with the ones that brung them”, as the saying goes.||6:So if moderate Americans want to influence how their government taxes, spends, regulates and wages war, they should tick a box next week.

||1:第二点是，政客们比他们从事政治演说更为老练。||2:很多政客私下为自己那些准备兜售给强硬支持的观众们天花乱坠的言论感到尴尬。||3:大家对于当年分裂的政府准备将党派中的中间分子集合起来共同商定改革事宜而忽略其存在的空隙和差距的日子充满了渴望。||4:但是所有的人都可以计入到投票数里—很精确的是这些天的投票都会计入到投票数中。||5:所有的政客倾向于报答自己的支持者：正如俗话说的“和带你来的人一起共舞”。||6:所以如果中间派的美国人想要对自己国家的税收、花费存在影响，规范美国对外战争，那他们就得下个星期去投票了。

Weak economies might also hanker for a monetary policy tailored to their own needs.

不景气的经济体可能也希望各国出台适应本国需求的货币政策。

For those who hanker for political reform, the momentary stasis was welcome.

对于那些渴求政治改革的人而言，不时的审查间歇值得拍手称快。

You hanker for fast food. Grilled chicken beats beef burger.

酷爱快餐食品，认为烤鸡肉汉堡比牛肉汉堡要好。

The reasons of investors hanker after the convertible company’s bond

投资者热衷于可转换公司债券的动因

Many of those who liked the idea of restoring America’s international prestige also hanker for a bit more urgency.

希望美国修复国际声誉的许多人，也期盼奥巴马加紧脚步。

Someone who spent their formative years in Massachusetts, say, may always hanker for Samuel Adams, a local beer.

一些人的性格形成时期是在马省度过的，他们就总是会选择塞缪尔-亚当斯牌的麻省当地啤酒。

hanker for

vt.渴望,热切希望

hanker after

vt.渴望,热切希望