necessity
英 [n?'ses?t?]
美[n?'s?s?ti]
- n. 需要；必然性；必需品
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詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?necessities;
中文詞源
necessity 必然，必然性
來自necessary,必要的，必需的。
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語例句
- 1. Some people have to lead stressful lifestyles out of necessity.
- 一些人迫于生計不得不過著緊張忙碌的生活。
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- 2. There is agreement on the necessity of reforms.
- 對改革的必要性已經(jīng)達(dá)成了共識。
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- 3. The assembly line of necessity kept moving.
- 生產(chǎn)線勢必保持運轉(zhuǎn)下去。
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- 4. Most women, like men, work from economic necessity.
- 與男人一樣，大部分女人也是出于經(jīng)濟原因而工作。
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- 5. Water is a basic necessity of life.
- 生命離不開水。
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