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单词 need
释义 need
I. \ˈnēd\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English ned, nede, from Old English nēd, nīed, nēad, nēod distress, force, necessity, need; akin to Old High German nōt distress, force, necessity, need, Old Norse nauth, Gothic nauths, and probably to Old English nēo corpse, Old Norse nār, Gothic naus; basic meaning: to be exhausted
1. : necessary duty : obligation
 < if need be >
 < no need to apologize — B.K.Thorne >
 < the need to pay taxes — Peter Scott >
 < the need to evade in order to survive — S.D.Cutter >
2.
 a. : a want of something requisite, desirable, or useful
  < our daily needs >
  < meet every need >
  < a building adequate for the company's needs >
  < eliminates all need for stitches and glue — Book Production >
  < the urgent need for discussion — Manchester Guardian Weekly >
  < order and discipline were the crying needs — Kemp Malone >
  < the classless society in which each would receive according to his needs — C.I.Glicksberg >
 b. : a physiological or psychological requirement for the maintenance of the homeostasis of an organism
  < tissue needs >
  < the need of a better education >
  < fundamental needs (besides sex and organic satisfaction) are for prestige, security, and some form of generalized activity — Frederick Creedy >
  < she experienced the need of being petted and made much of by a man — Robert Grant †1940 >
  < an equilibrium in which society's needs and the needs of the individual are one — W.H.Whyte >
3. : a condition requiring supply or relief : exigency
 < in his need >
 < at a time of need >
 < whenever the need arises >
 < a friend in need is a friend indeed >
4. : want of the means of subsistence : destitution, poverty
 < the community provides for those in need >

- at need
II. adverb
Etymology: Middle English nede, from Old English nēde, nīede, nēade, nēode, instrumental of nēd, nīed, nēad, nēod necessity
obsolete : needs
III. \ˈnēd\ verb
(needed ; needed ; needing ; needs or need)
Etymology: Middle English needen, neden, from Old English nēodian to be necessary, from nēod necessity
intransitive verb
1. : to be in want
 < give to them who need >
2. : to be needful : be necessary
 < playing as quietly as needed — Warwick Braithwaite >
 < is less effective than needs be — Leo Wiener >
transitive verb
: to be in need of : have cause or occasion for : require
 < children need milk >
 < he needs advice >
 < great art does not need a theory — Herbert Read >
 < he does not need to be told when he is failing >
 < we need to guard against the private seizure of power — T.W.Arnold >
 < really need to ask ourselves — Frank Fremont-Smith >
 < something urgently needs doing — Joaquin Noval >
 < it needs little more than wise words — Barbara Ward >
— sometimes used before an infinitive without to
 < I did not need appear — Herbert Hoover >
 < one needs point out — J.B.Cabell >
verbal auxiliary
: be under necessity or obligation to
 < the last group … we need deal with — W.E.Swinton >
 < one need only look at the management … to realize — Wayne Morse >
 < no necessitarian need ever abandon his hypothesis — L.S.Feuer >
 < talks more than he need >
 < he need not answer >
 < need she explain >
 < all the poet need do is to remind the reader — Joseph Jones >
Synonyms: see lack
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