Need
[niːd] or [nid]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) anything that is necessary but lacking; 'he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs'; 'I tried to supply his wants'.
(noun.) a condition requiring relief; 'she satisfied his need for affection'; 'God has no need of men to accomplish His work'; 'there is a demand for jobs'.
(verb.) have or feel a need for; 'always needing friends and money'.
安琪編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
(n.) Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
(n.) That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.
(n.) Situation of need; peril; danger.
(n.) To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
(v. i.) To be wanted; to be necessary.
(adv.) Of necessity. See Needs.
校對:莫利
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Necessity, want, exigency, urgency, emergency.[2]. Indigence, poverty, penury, destitution, distress.
v. a. Want, require, lack, be in want of, stand in want of.
校對:奥利弗
同義詞及反義詞：
[See NECESSITY]
乔琳整理
解釋/意思:
n. want of something which one cannot do without: necessity: a state that requires relief: want of the means of living.—v.t. to have occasion for: to want.—ns. Need′-be a necessity; Need′er; Need′fire fire produced by friction to which a certain virtue is superstitiously attached: a beacon generally.—adj. Need′ful full of need: having need: needy: necessary: requisite.—adv. Need′fully.—n. Need′fulness.—adv. Need′ily.—n. Need′iness.—adj. Need′less (Shak.) having no need: not needed: unnecessary.—adv. Need′lessly.—n. Need′lessness.—adv. Need′ly (Shak.) necessarily.—n. Need′ment something needed.—adv. Needs of necessity: indispensably—often used with must as 'needs must.'—adj. Need′y very poor: requisite.—n. Need′yhood.—The needful (slang) ready money.
校對:梅雷迪思
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream that you are in need, denotes that you will speculate unwisely and distressing news of absent friends will oppress you. To see others in need, foretells that unfortunate affairs will affect yourself with others.
科妮莉亚手打
例句/造句/用法:
- So old an art, and so great and continuous a need for its products necessarily must have resulted in much development and progress. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- What need you getting drunk, then, and cutting up, Prue? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- His place is there as well as yours, and the children need him. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- You need not fear to hear the few remaining words we have to say. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- No need, was again her answer--no need, no need: and her small step toiled wearily up the staircase. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I don't think you need be afraid of that, replied Helena, with great scorn; Andros is not likely to rule Melnos. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- So we who are democrats need not believe that the people are necessarily right in their choice: some of us are always in the minority, and not a little proud of the distinction. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Together they set about designing the machine to make it as nearly perfect as possible in adaptation to the needs of modern business. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- This statement needs to be rendered more specific by connecting it with the materials of school instruction, the studies which make up the curriculum. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But instead of narrowing the scope of politics, to avoid it, the only sensible thing to do is to invent methods which will allow needs and problems and group interests avenues into politics. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- We owe the railroad chiefly to the needs of the north of England, and there we find the real birth of the locomotive. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Does he really think he needs me, and can take an interest in me as a sister? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- For unions and trusts, sects, clubs and voluntary associations stand for actual needs. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Dose, teaspoonful to one-half wineglassful, as needed. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- For the easy expression of public opinion in government is a clue to what services are needed and a test of their success. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- No one ever needed your advice more than I do. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- I needed no second permission; though I was by this time in such a state of consternation and agitation, that my legs shook under me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I got some data and made up my mind that what was needed was a very powerful engine for its weight, in small compass. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Yet you told him to go, Mother, and didn't cry when he went, and never complain now, or seem as if you needed any help, said Jo, wondering. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- And this lawful use of them seems likely to be often needed in the regulations of marriages and births. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Hitherto they had been voiceless, wordless, needing all their breath for their hard-labouring efforts to break down the gates. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Fearing to betray herself, she slipped away, murmuring something about needing more paper. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Found in their natural state in utmost perfection, needing no cutting nor polishing, these glowing beads of the sea were the first baubles of savages, tribes and nations. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- There she is, a lily of the valley, untinted, needing no tint. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- And all of us have like wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Being found in a condition of comparative purity, and needing but little refinement, they were, for that reason, the first metals fashioned to meet the wants of man. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Matter must be considered as created by God in accordance with law and as ever obedient to law, not as an independent or hostile fo rce needing occasional correction. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
校對:塔玛拉