Yet true love isn't to be acquitted with pining for an absent figure.

不过真爱仍然不是去为一个不存在的对像憔悴。

" Winky is pining, Harry Potter, " Dobby whispered sadly.

“闪闪现在很憔悴，哈利·波特，”多比忧伤地小声说。

The mother was pining to see her son and daughter.

母亲渴望见到她的子女。

The widow was pining away after her husband's death.

这名寡妇自先生过世之后憔悴。

Six months after he left, she was still pining.

【pine】他离开六个月了，她还是很悲伤。

" Amy, we must go. Good–by, dear, do come and see us. We are pining for a visit. I don't dare to ask you, Mr. Lamb, but if you should come, I don't think I shall have the heart to send you away."

“艾米，我们得走了。再见，亲爱的，一定得来看我们。我们渴望有人来访啊。我不敢邀请你，兰姆先生，不过你一旦来了，我想我不忍心打发你走的。”

That morning Aunt Pitty had reached the regretful decision that she had better kill the patriarch before he died of old age and pining for his harem which had long since been eaten.

那天早晨，皮姑妈遗憾地作出决定，最好把这只老公鸡宰掉，省得它继续为那只早被吃掉的老伴伤心，直到自己老死为止。

" Poor poor me. Now I've tasted chocolate, I'll never be happy again." The keepers noticed that he had gone off his bananas and they worried that he was pining away.

“可怜的我，再也体验不到那种吃完巧克力的快乐了。” 饲养员知道了Theo不吃香蕉的事，很担心他去。

Ordinary North Koreans are more likely to be pining for a humble mobile phone of any sort, and now their chances of owning one are increasing.

但对普通朝鲜民众来说，能拥有随什么一个手机他们就谢天谢地了，而现在看来这个要求已经不再是天方夜谭。

The runner who knows how to take a hike is said to be out pining away for another try.

这位有经验的徒步者表达了再次尝试的想法。

" More cruel than ever. Don't you see how I'm pining away? " and Laurie gave his broad chest a sounding slap and heaved a melodramatic sigh.

“比以往更冷酷了，你难道看不出我正在憔悴吗？”劳里响亮地拍了一自己宽阔的胸膛，故作忧郁地长叹了一声。

" Of course you did, and spoiled your story by beginning at the wrong end. Now, start right, and tell me how it all happened. I'm pining to know."

“你当然做到了，但是开错了头，把这故事给破坏了。现在以正确的方式告诉我这一切是怎么发生的。我太想知道了。”

Gatsby, it turns out, is pining for Nick's cousin Daisy.

原来，盖茨比一直钟情于尼克的表妹黛西。

This is the culmination of six years of pining.

这是六年相思的结晶。

So you've been pining for this man for four years.

所以你已经对这个男人朝思暮想了四年。

I spent the whole weekend pining for her.

我整个周末都在思念她。

Sara, you wrote a companion column for this cover story about your daughter actually kind of pining for a time when phones weren't omnipresent. How did being a parent affect how you came to this story?

萨拉（Sara），您为这个封面故事写了一个伴侣专栏，讲述了您的女儿实际上是在手机不清晰的时候固定的。成为父母如何影响您如何进入这个故事？

As for Berliners pining to stroll through the Ishtar Gate, flanked by a magnificent menagerie of sacred Babylonian animals, they should remember that for 2,500 years it was never possible.

对于渴望漫步穿过两侧是巴比伦神圣动物的宏伟动物园的柏林人来说，他们应该记住，2500 年来这是不可能的。

My old professor, Don Boudreau, used to say, if you're pining for the halcyon days of the 1970s, you're either a misogynist or you have dementia.

我的老教授唐·布德罗常说，如果你怀念20世纪70年代那段平静美好的时光，那你不是个厌恶女性的人， 就是患了痴呆症。

It's like a pop rock song where he's pining after a girl that doesn't want him, even though he's like a very good looking young man.

就像一首流行摇滚歌曲，他苦苦思念一个并不喜欢他的女孩，尽管他本人是个非常英俊的年轻人。