to long for, to yearn after, to admire
Example sentences
晴耕雨読の人生にも少々は憧れるけれど、僕にはそんな生き方、3日ももたないだろうな。
I sometimes wish I could live a quiet retired sort of life but I doubt I could stand it for more than a few days.
死に憧れる者は惨めであるが、死を恐れる者はさらに惨めである。
One who longs for death is miserable, but more miserable is he who fears it.
彼は彼らが名声に憧れていると思った。
He thought of them yearning for fame.
More N2 vocabulary
- 揉むto rub, to crumple (up), to wrinkle
- こぼれるto overflow, to spill
- 流行るto flourish, to thrive, to be popular, to come into fashion
- 以後after this, from now on, hereafter, thereafter
- 配るto distribute, to deliver
- 撒くto scatter, to sprinkle, to sow