释义 |
yen noun an intense craving, especially for a drug; an addiction UK, 1876- Suppose some glamorous dame and you met. Suppose you got a yen for her? — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 23, 1949
- Most of us walked around that day like zombies, our yens in total eclipse. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 4, 1954
- He was roaring through Las Cruces, New Mexico, when he suddenly had an explosive yen to see his sweet first wife Maylou again. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 112, 1957
- This is a yen of the brain alone, a need without feeling and without body[.] — William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, p. 19, 1957
- If you really have got a yen I’ll give you a shot. — Douglas Rutherford, The Creeping Flesh, p. 103, 1963
- I felt my throat blend in and out with the yen. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 204, 1967
- I was, however, a guy that had an insane cocaine yen, and that, my dear reader, is far worse than a horse habit, because it costs ten times as much bread. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 75, 1973
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