| 单词 | needful |
| 释义 | need·ful I. 1. < needful families > 2. < the one thing needful > < provided with everything needful and remain aboard — Herman Melville > < power to … make all needful rules and regulations — U.S. Constitution > < buying only what was strictly needful — W.S.Maugham > Synonyms: < the town fathers found it needful to seek a new place to the west for grazing — American Guide Series: Massachusetts > < pots and pans, kettles and cranes, axes and nails, and other needful things which could not be made by men hewing homes from a wilderness — Harriot B. Barbour > necessary implies more pressing need < until we know how much of this damage can be repaired and how quickly the necessary repairs can be made — F.D.Roosevelt > < we are making them independent of the knowledge necessary to make their work satisfactory — M.R.Cohen > < amino acids necessary for protein synthesis — Americana Annual > requisite suggests an imposed requirement, applying usually to what is necessary by the nature of the end or the larger purpose to be served < attack their other studies with the vigor requisite to success — C.H.Grandgent > < the skill requisite to direct these immense machines is proportionate to their magnitude and complicated mechanism — T.L.Peacock > indispensable applies to something that cannot be done without if the end is to be attained < eliminate irrelevancies and retain what is indispensable — John Dewey > < reading quite indispensable to a wise man — R.W.Emerson > < stability of cost is indispensable to sound business planning — H.S.Truman > essential is often interchangeable with indispensable though less dramatic in implication, implying simply inherent necessity < food is essential to life > < the award of fellowships and research grants is essential to the accomplishment of this high purpose — Dexter Perkins > < unrestrained competition, which is generally regarded as essential to modern capitalism — M.R.Cohen > II. a. < do the needful > b. < summer needfuls > < small needfuls > c. < had the needful to buy what he wanted > |
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