necessity
英 [nɪ'sesɪtɪ] 美 [nə'sɛsəti]
| 近义词 | certainty 、 inevitability 、 certitude | ||
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- n. 需要；必然性；必需品
词态变化
复数: necessities;
中文词源
necessity 必然，必然性
来自necessary,必要的，必需的。
英文词源
- necessity (n.)
- late 14c., "constraining power of circumstances," from Old French necessité "need, necessity; privation, poverty; distress, torment; obligation, duty" (12c.), from Latin necessitatem (nominative necessitas) "compulsion, need for attention, unavoidableness, destiny," from necesse (see necessary). Meaning "condition of being in need" in English is from late 15c.
Necessity is the Mother of Invention. [Richard Franck, c. 1624-1708, English author and angler, "Northern Memoirs," 1658]
To maken vertu of necessite is in Chaucer. Related: Necessities.
双语例句
- 1. Some people have to lead stressful lifestyles out of necessity.
- 一些人迫于生计不得不过着紧张忙碌的生活。
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- 2. There is agreement on the necessity of reforms.
- 对改革的必要性已经达成了共识。
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- 3. The assembly line of necessity kept moving.
- 生产线势必保持运转下去。
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- 4. Most women, like men, work from economic necessity.
- 与男人一样，大部分女人也是出于经济原因而工作。
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- 5. Water is a basic necessity of life.
- 生命离不开水。
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