| 单词 | demand |
| 释义 | de·mand I. 1. a. < wishes turned into demands for obedience > b. (1) (2) < hold a demand against a person > (3) 2. archaic 3. a. b. c. d. 4. a. < his eloquence brought him into frequent demand as an occasional speaker — Ella Lonn > < nickel is in great demand > b. < increased demands for manpower > 5. < demands that are justifiable and reasonable > 6. < demands that overtax a piece of machinery > < equal to any demands his old ship was likely to make on his competence — Joseph Conrad > 7. < a kidnapper's demands for money > 8. 9. • - on demand II. intransitive verb transitive verb 1. obsolete 2. < he no longer demanded such recognition. Instead he prayed for it — Sherwood Anderson > 3. a. b. < the harpooner was demanding the beam that he had paid for — H.A.Chippendale > c. < demand obedience to the rules > 4. a. < demand the cause of her sorrow — Shakespeare > b. < the crowd demanded the star > 5. < the fire that the cool evenings of early spring demanded — Mary Austin > < questions that demand discussion of cultural conditions — John Dewey > 6. Synonyms: < Antonius tomorrow will demand your tribute — Alfred Tennyson > < the sun … demanded attention in a manner that would take no denial — C.S.Forester > < instincts which the conventions of good manners and the imperatives of morality demand that they should repress — Aldous Huxley > require is more likely to stress the fact of necessity or compulsiveness than the manner of communication or indication, and may seem less strident but more coolly insistent and exigent < the duty of self-preservation requires us to be mentally as well equipped as the French, Germans, and Americans — W.R.Inge > < the government of the United States which in the administrations of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson required the services of slightly more than one thousand civilian employees — Alan Barth > claim may indicate a demand or request for due delivery or appropriate concession or recognition based on right, warrant, or sanction and calculated to overcome resistance or reluctance < in Naples the beggars claim an alms noisily and as though by right — Aldous Huxley > < authoritarian methods now … come to us claiming to serve the ultimate ends of freedom and equity — John Dewey > exact suggests not asking, claiming, or demanding but instead obtaining or forcing delivery, execution, or concession of what is sought < the mistake of exacting reparation in money and then lending Germany money with which to pay — H.S.Truman > < kept a keen eye on her court and exacted prompt and willing obedience from king and archbishops — Henry Adams > III. • - on demand |
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