• His books are filled with a tension between the desire to know and fear of what knowing will cost.

    ECONOMIST: European fiction

  • The desire to know what transpires behind high palace walls is exceeded only by the desire to be admitted inside.

    ECONOMIST: Courtiers and counsellors

  • Whether he was right or wrong, he was demonstrating an impulse that is embedded into the DNA code of almost every political player and observer I know: the desire to figure out what other campaign year the current one is like.

    CNN: Jeff Greenfield: Party like it's 1988

  • For constructive change to happen anywhere, you need to know what needs changing, have the desire to make the needed reforms, and have the means to do so.

    FORBES: The Three "I's" of Higher Ed Reform

  • Again, I think that wegroes kind of come with their own set of issues, among them the desire to be the, you know, the one, you know, down white boy who can find his way to escape the responsibilities of the past, goes to rap concerts and is like thrilled that there is this multiracial experience that we're taking a part of, which I'm not sure.

    NPR: Book Looks at White Youth and Hip-Hop Culture

  • Like it or not, the safety of the American public and the freedom of the Egyptian people not only trumps a good story but takes precedence over our desire to know every dirty detail the moment it happens.

    FORBES: The Egyptian Crisis-Let Obama Do His Job

  • And there are other people, I think, who are disappointed because I think there was, you know, desire to see the all-time home-run record be untainted, you know.

    NPR: Report: A-Rod Tested Positive For Steroids

  • Dr. MARK LLOYD (FEMA): The responders, although they have no desire to break the law or do anything, you know, that they're not supposed to--these individuals do their job and they find a way to do it.

    NPR: FEMA's Efforts to Help Pets Draw Criticism

  • Kids are becoming aware that the more involved the data footprint they create somewhere, the more it will be used against them by big data researchers looking to predict their future activities and then market to them the things they don't yet know they're about to desire.

    CNN: Yahoo wants Tumblr's teens

  • The same goes for the folks around us, whom we do not know, and whom we resemble only in our private desire to know more of what will unfold in public, on the stage or screen.

    NEWYORKER: Home Movies

  • The people who know Sarah Palin best say that she joined the McCain campaign with a sincere desire to do what was best for America.

    CNN: Commentary: What Alaska learned about Palin

  • And I know that the President reiterated his desire to push for this comprehensive peace.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Regardless of preparation, training, desire or zeal, it's impossible to know exactly how the climb will go.

    NPR: Mahler's Fifth Symphony: The Everest of Music

  • She remembered the wild jealousy she had felt over Jerry and his trips, a desire to search with him in some unlikely place for the remnant of a fact nobody else cared to know.

    NEWYORKER: Brooklyn Circle

  • Thus, Google's desire to intimately know us is primarily driven by its core business objective of -- one way or the other - selling that knowledge to advertisers.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • While the companies make up a varied landscape of technological know-how, financial wherewithal and enterprising ideas, they all share one common goal: The desire to conquer what is widely considered to be the final frontier of mankind -- the universe.

    CNN: Opening the space frontier, one tourist at a time

$firstVoiceSent
- 来自原声例句
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定