单词 | it needs |
释义 | > as lemmas(it) needs a. (it) needs: it is needful or necessary. Frequently with clause as complement. In Old English also with genitive of the thing required. extracted from needv.2ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > be necessary [verb (intransitive)] > it is necessary (it) needsOE tharfc1175 (it) misters1424 it needsa1425 there needs?a1425 OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) 89 On cealdum eardum neodað [OE Wells is neod], þæt þæs reafes mare sy, on hleowfæstum læs. Ðæs abbodes foresceawunge sceal beon be þysum, hu ðæs neodige. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) 250 It nedeþ þat a gyste and a beme be longe, stronge, and grete. 1464 Let. in Ld. Clermont Wks. J. Fortescue (1869) I. 27 It shalle nede that the quene gate some notable and manly prince...welle garnysshed withe habilymentes of werre. a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 143 (MED) It nedith þat it be delibered whether the kynge mey gyve such rewarde. c1480 (a1400) St. Matthew 211 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 196 It nedyt þat he suld mak a tempil. a1550 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Wemyss) v. 3723 Forthy it nedis that ressoune Thyne vnreullis habandoun. ΚΠ ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 20 Ȝe muȝen seggen hit biforen & efter vchtsong anan ȝef swa neodeð. 1408–9 in J. Slater Early Scots Texts (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Edinb.) (1952) No. 67 For to make knawyn til al men & ony alqwhar it nedis. 1473 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 166 With wynnyn and gudyn of the lands quhareuer it nedis. 1503–4 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 324 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 The owners of all suche nettis shall repaire them when it nedith. 1512 in J. Robertson Illustr. Topogr. & Antiq. Aberdeen & Banff (1857) III. 109 To big the mylne hous..and red the dame as it nedis. 1634 J. Canne Necessitie of Separation i. 24 I could produce many others of them..but it needs not. 1765 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto v ‘It needs not’..‘the horrors of these days..corroborate thy evidence’. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. iv. 103 ‘I will not lift hand against him.’ ‘It needs not—send Louis Winkelman and a score of thy lances.’ 1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux I. xxvi. 216 ‘You had better send one of Garnett's people,’ said the duchess... ‘It will hardly need,’ said Madame Goesler. (c) intransitive. With to-infinitive. ΚΠ c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1746 It nedeth noght to pyne yow with the corde. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 6525 Hit nedeth nothyng to wond. Hit is a best founde in boke. a1402 J. Trevisa tr. Dialogus Militem et Clericum (Harl.) 36 Ȝif any happe falliþ wherefore hit nediþ to make eny maner statute. ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 35 (MED) It nedeth not to tell ȝou the names of the cytees. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 320 (MED) That mannys lawe forbedith not..the seid endewing, nedith not to proue. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) vii. 167 Of Rowlande nedeth not to speke. a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 2893 (MED) It nedith not to make all this arraye. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 245 (MED) Hit nedyth to vse..hote mettys and moiste, as chykenys..culueres, good Swete wyne. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xviii. 318 To seeke out many expositions of these woordes, it shall not neede. 1882 W. Besant All Sorts xlviii. 318 It needs not to tell what she said. 1912 Eng. Rev. Sept. 284 It does not need to take everything Lord Charles Beresford says without a grain of salt. ΚΠ c1390 G. Chaucer Miller's Tale 3599 Thow art so wys, it nedeth [v.rr. nedyth, nededeþ] thee nat teche. ?a1475 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Harl. 6579) i. xlix. f. 34 (MED) It nediþ nouȝt renne to Rome ne to Ierusalem for to seken Hym þere. a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) 4982 Hyt nedith noght..more haue pensifnesse. 1865 W. G. Palgrave Narr. Journey through Arabia I. 112 Needs not say how lovely are the summer evenings. it needs c. intransitive. it needs: there is need for (a thing or (occasionally) person) in order to achieve some object (usually stated as infinitive, or for with clause). Also formerly intransitive with of. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > be necessary [verb (intransitive)] > it is necessary (it) needsOE tharfc1175 (it) misters1424 it needsa1425 there needs?a1425 a1425 Comm. in H. R. Bramley Rolle's Psalter (1884) 1 (MED) Bot for the psalmes bene ful derke..Hit nedeth exposicyon. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. ii. pr. v. 33 It nedeth of ful manye helpynges to kepyn the diversite of precious ostelementz. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 85v (MED) Late þe pacient be fulfillid wiþ figis, notis, garlek, and Rewe..drunken wiþ good wiyn, and it nediþ noon oþir medicyne. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie clxxxv. 1151 The apparantnes..was so great, that it needed not any great reason to conceive it. 1786 T. Jefferson Let. 13 Aug. in Papers (1954) X. 245 But it needs but half an eye to see, when among them, that the foundation is laid in their dispositions, for the establishment of a despotism. 1839 Times 19 Oct. It needed not, nevertheless, the published correspondence of such a hero to convince us. 1853 M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy in Poems (new ed.) 204 It needs happy moments for this skill. 1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xxx It needed all of Chauvelin's nerve and presence of mind not to give way to a useless and undignified access of rage. 1992 Car Feb. 62/3 The controls are heavier. It needs a stout stab of the left leg to sink the clutch. < as lemmas |
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