need

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /niːd/|[nɪi̯d]    美 /nid/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A requirement for something; something needed. countable,uncountable
    — There's no need to speculate; we can easily find out for sure.
  2. A desire or craving for the satisfaction of a requirement perceived as essential or primal. countable,uncountable
  3. Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. countable,uncountable
    — Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes.
动词 v.
  1. To have an absolute requirement for. transitive
    — Living things need water to survive.
  2. To want strongly; to feel that one must have something. transitive
    — After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave.
  3. To be obliged or required (to do something). modal
    — I need not go if I don't want to, need I?
  4. To be required; to be necessary. intransitive
    — When we have done it, we have done our duty, and all that is in our power, and indeed all that needs.
  5. To be necessary (to someone). obsolete,transitive
    — More ample spirit, then hitherto was wount, / Here needes me […]

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
be in need of require
衍生词
a friend in need is a friend indeed basic needs call-by-need hour of need if need be if needs be in dire need of in need manly needs need-based need-blind needcessity need-fire needful needfully needfulness needily neediness needless needlessly needlessness needly need more time in the oven need-not need one's eyes checked needs analysis needs-blind needsome needways needwise needworthy needy no need pass-by-need preneed special needs time the deed to the need a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle baby needs new shoes citation needed do you need an invitation do you need help do you need to use the bathroom every king needs a queen feeling good wine needs no bush I need ... I need a guide I need to vomit last thing one needs like one needs a hole in the head needable needed unneeded needer need I say more needling needment need no introduction need not need one's bumps need one's bumps felt need one's head examined need to need-to-know never ask the barber if you need a haircut on a need-to-know basis with friends like these who needs enemies with friends like those who needs enemies you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
相关词
in need

词源

词源 1
From Middle English need, nede, a merger of two terms:
* Old English nīed (West Saxon), nēd (Mercian), nēad (“necessity, compulsion, want”), from Proto-West Germanic *naudi, from Proto-Germanic *naudiz, from Proto-Indo-European *neh₂w- (“death”).
* Old English nēod (“desire, longing”), from Proto-West Germanic *niudi (“desire, eagerness”), from Proto-Indo-European *new- (“to incline, tend, move, push, nod, wave”).
词源 2
From Middle English neden, from Old English nēodian.
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