want

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /wɒnt/    美 /wɑnt/|/wʌnt/|/wɔnt/|/wɔnt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mole (Talpa europea). dialectal
    — Lic. She hath the ears of a want. / Pec. Doth she want ears?
  2. A desire, wish, longing. countable
    — After a search which produced most of the things on our wants list, we went down to picnic on the shore in the sunshine-with a good stretch of shingle behind us over which no triffid could approach unheard.
  3. Lack, absence, deficiency. countable
    — She showed a want of caution in renting her house to complete strangers.
  4. Poverty. uncountable
    — Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.
  5. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt. countable,uncountable
    — Habitual superfluities become actual wants.
  6. A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place. UK,countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand. transitive
    — I want you as a friend, not a foe.
  2. To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.; To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it. broadly,transitive
    — The game developers of Candy Crush want you to waste large, copious amounts of your money on in-game purchases to buy boosters and lives.
  3. To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with. transitive
    — Ma’am, you are exactly the professional we want for this job.
  4. To desire (to experience desire); to wish. intransitive
    — You can leave if you want.
  5. To be advised to do something (compare should, ought). colloquial,second-person,usually
    — You’ll want to repeat this three or four times to get the best result.
  6. To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun). colloquial,transitive
    — The lady, it is said, will inherit a fortune of three hundred pounds a year, with two cool thousands left by an uncle, on her arriving at the age of twenty-one, of which she wants but a few months.
  7. To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need. archaic,transitive
    — Man wants but little, nor that little long.
  8. To be lacking or deficient or absent. dated,intransitive
    — There was something wanting in the play.
  9. To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack. dated,intransitive
    — You have a gift, sir (thank your education), / Will never let you want.
  10. To lack and be without, to not have (something). archaic,transitive
    — he that hath skill to be a pilot wants a ship; and he that could govern a commonwealth[…]wants means to exercise his worth, hath not a poor office to manage.
  11. To lack and perhaps be able or willing to do without. broadly,obsolete,transitive
    — […] which the Kings of Assyria had left for the maintenance of this Temple sacrifices, after the ouerthrow thereof, was shared among the Chaldzans; which they by this attempt were like to lose, and therefore were willing to want his presence.
  12. To desire a romantic or (especially) sexual relationship with someone; to lust for.
    — Dang, girl! Your brother is gorgeous! I want him so bad!

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
set one's heart on wish for would like ache appetize aspire covet crave desire dream eye fancy fond heart hope hunger jones like thirst wish
反义词
dislike hate unwant
下位词
choose favor pick prefer vote
衍生词
all one wants do not want do want I don't want it I don't want to buy anything I don't want to talk about it I want doesn't get I want my money back I want to go to the toilet I want to know I want to speak to the manager haircut not want to do that pay what you want Polly want a cracker unwanted wanna want-away wanted wanter want for want for nothing want in wanting want list want no part of want one's bumps feeling want one's bumps felt want out want someone's nachos want-to want to want-to-be want to bet want to know waste not, want not what do you want who wants to know? you don't want to know you want a cookie you want a piece of me for want of want ad wantful wantish wantless want must be one's master wantsome wanty

词源

词源 1
From Middle English wanten (“to lack, to need”), from Old Norse vanta (“to lack”), from Proto-Germanic *wanatōną (“to be wanting, lack”), from *wanô (“lack, deficiency”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”). Cognate with Middle High German wan (“not full, empty”), Middle Dutch wan (“empty, poor”), Old English wana (“want, lack, absence, deficiency”), Latin vanus (“empty”). See wan, wan-.
词源 2
From Middle English wont (“mole”), from Old English wand, wond, from Proto-Germanic *wanduz.
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