Dictionary › 欲望

欲望

yù wàng

HSK 6 2-character word Traditional 慾望

What 欲望 means

1. desire; longing; appetite; craving

The characters in 欲望

• 欲yùdesire; appetite; passion
• 望wàngfull moon; to hope; to expect

Example sentences

• 没有欲望就等于拥有。
  Méiyǒu yùwàng jiù děngyú yōngyǒu.
  Not wanting is the same as having.
• 我没有强烈的欲望去学习。
  Wǒ méiyǒu qiángliè de yùwàng qù xuéxí.
  I don't feel like studying.
• 人收入愈高，欲望就愈大。
  Men's wants become greater in proportion to the increase in their income.
• 不要把欲望和爱情混为一谈。
  Bù yào bǎ yùwàng hé àiqíng hùnwéiyītán.
  Don't confuse desire with love.
• 广告商最基本的工作就是把人的欲望转化成需要。
  Guǎnggàoshāng zuì jīběn de gōngzuò jiùshì bǎ rén de yùwàng zhuǎnhuà chéng xūyào.
  The basic job of an advertising agency is to figure out how to turn a desire into a need.
• 许多着作都致力于研究开发小孩学习欲望的方式，但其中很少会有作品分析学校教育的强制性角色。
  The mandatory character of schooling is rarely analyzed in the multitude of works dedicated to the study of the various ways to develop within children the desire to learn.