The gene is a transporter of serotonin, a brain chemical involved with mood and desire for food.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Of course the most common use of the "I want to" pattern is when you express your desire for something.

当然，“I want to”句型最常见的用法是用来表达你对某事的愿望。

I want to 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It's the same desire for some kind of sacrificial substitution that, I think, is fueling the poem's ending.

这和为诗歌最后的结尾火上浇油的，牺牲性的替代是毫无差别的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Early in his career, he continued President Kennedy's desire for social change by helping to pass the Civil Rights Act of Nineteen Sixty-four.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

And what he seems to be saying is this: we are beings who are first and foremost dominated " by a desire for power.

他所说的似乎是像这样：,“我们是被追求权力欲望,所主宰的首要生物。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Another time she would have ignored the desire for food until reaching her own home.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Familiarity is itself a desire for liking, a force for liking.

熟悉是一股喜欢的渴望和力量。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Babbitt," from nineteen twenty-two, humorously criticizes America's desire for goods and its sales industry.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

The realization of desire for this young Yeats is something only possible in art.

对年轻的叶芝来说这种愿望的,实现只有在艺术里才可能。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

With the gold they found in the mountains came a desire for further improvement.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

Typically, we're distracted from thinking about them by the distractions provided by the body-- the desire for food, drink, sex, what have you, sleep.

通常我们对这些东西的思考,被身体的一些需求打乱了,比如对食物,饮料,性,睡眠的欲望

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He spoke of America's desire for peace, and to seek the common good.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

So, all of that is very palpable, and Sal's own desire for Dean is sublimated in those scenes, but it's everywhere at the level of the language.

所有这些都很明显，在那些情景下Sal对迪恩的渴望升华了，但在语言层面上到处都有表现。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"With economic growth and expansion comes the desire for more political freedom.

VOA: special.2011.02.04

When I think of desire, this is the first image that comes to mind for me.

当我想到欲望时，这是首先出现在我脑海中的图像。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Love is the opposite of the desire for power.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

Another situation where you can use "I wish" is when you express regret, a desire to stay longer, for example.

另一种使用“I wish”的情况是当你表达遗憾的时候，例如，希望多待一段时间。

I wish 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Mr.Obama won the presidency in 2008 largely because of the public's desire for change and concerns about the domestic economy.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

The Homeric heroes are ignorant and passionate men full of blind anger and desire for retribution.

荷马英雄,尽是无知且激情的男性,满腔的盲目、忿怒与渴望报仇。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The Obama administration's desire for a viable U.S.auto industry might include the resignation of one of its major players.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

Now we might at first think that Satan's vaunting here is the product of nothing more elevated than hate and a desire for revenge, but Milton's doing something truly extraordinary.

我们首先会想到撒旦之所以在这里自吹自擂,不过是因为他的仇恨和复仇的欲望，不过弥尔顿在这里做了不同寻常的艺术处理。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Secretary Gates indicated the pace of the transition could roughly match President Karzai's stated desire for his forces to be operating on their own in five years.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

Fear, you will remember is associated with the desire for security, order, rationality, and peace. Pride is connected with the love of glory, honor, recognition and ambition.

要知道，人的恐惧是与其内心对安全,秩序，理性与和平的渴望联系在一起的，而自豪是与荣耀，声誉，志向与他人的认可,联系在以一起的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

(Speaking) Mr.Gbagbo says that thanks to the support of the international community, and in particular thanks to the work and desire for peace of his fellow Ivorians, the electoral process has entered an irreversible phase.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Freud had this wonderful phrase, "polymorphous perversity," this pure desire for pleasure.

弗洛伊德美其名曰“多形性反常“,即追求纯粹的快乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

This young man must struggle between his moral beliefs and his desire to seek punishment for his father's death.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

This is ambition for a career, but it's also a desire for personal autonomy. For Frost, poetry is invested with a longing for autonomy in, well, both simple and complex senses.

这是事业心，也是一种,个人自由的渴望，对他来说，诗歌是,结合了自由的渴望，呈现出一种既简单又复杂的感觉。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

There is also debate about the desire of some Internet providers to offer special treatment to sites willing to pay for it.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

The ancients had a beautiful word or at least the Greeks had a beautiful word for this quest for this desire for knowledge of the best regime.

古人有一个美丽的字眼,至少希腊文有这么一个美丽的字眼,送给寻道者，追寻最优政体知识的欲望。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Doesn't Aristotle call man the rational animal, the being with logos, suggesting that all human beings have a desire for knowledge and the desire to cultivate their minds and live as free persons.

亚里士多德不是称人类为理性的动物吗，具有，Logos，的生物，并暗示所有的人类,都有求知欲,且想要陶冶他的身心,并过自由的生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选