long: implies a wishing with one's whole heart for something remote or not easily attainable: ~ed for some peace and quiet.   (with one’s whole heart全心全意，形容感情投入真挚强烈，等于wholeheartedly，如全心全意为人民服务to serve the people两个都可以用)


yearn: suggests an eager, restless and painful longing: ~ed for a career on the stage.   yearning是同名电视剧的名字


hanker: suggests the uneasy promptings of unsatisfied appetite or desires: always ~ed for more money.   （uneasy不安的means being worried and unhappy，如I wondered uneasily what he was thinking我惴惴不安，不知他到底在想什么，如she shifted uneasily in her chair她忐忑不安地在椅子上移动，如she felt uneasy about leaving the children with them把孩子托付给他们，她心里七上八下的）


pine: implies a languishing or a fruitless longing for what is impossible of attainment: ~ed for a  long-lost love.  （languor疲惫慵懒，由于天气疾病生活舒适或爱情而感到疲惫不想动弹suggests inertia induced by an enervating climate or illness or soft living or love，如languor induced by a tropical vacation热带度假后人变得疲惫慵懒）


hunger: implies an insistent or impatient craving or a compelling need like that for food: ~ed for a business of his own.  craving强烈欲望a strong desire，另外desire欲望本身表示强烈愿望strong wish，在2019-08-12 欲望desire-covet组


thirst: suggests a compelling need like that for liquid: ~ed for absolute power.


long: 指强烈真挚但难以企及的愿望，yearn: 表示急切躁动痛苦地渴望，hanker: 表示忧虑不安，胃口欲望得不到满足，pine: 指徒劳疲惫地渴望无法实现的愿望，hunger: 形容迫切渴望，像饥饿时需要食物，thirst: 像口渴时需要喝水


记忆方法:  1）首字母LYHPHT想成PHY LHT物理光<==我渴望     渴望光明          

          2）渴望的意思是有强烈愿望mean to have a strong desire for something.