| 单词 | necessity |
| 释义 | necessity /ni'sesati; na'scsati/ n (pl -ties) 1 [U] urgent need; circumstances that compel sb to do 'sth; natural laws that direct human life and action: 急需; 迫使某人作某事的情况; 支配人类生活与行动的自然律; 必需; 必要： He was driven by ~ to steal food, for his starving children. 他迫不得已为他饥饿的儿女偸窃食物。 The doctor asked us not to call him during the night except in case of eg unless the patient's condition changed very much for the worse. 鹤生吩咐我们除非必要不要在夜里叫他。 be under the ~ of. . ., be compelled by.... 不得已而…。 bow to ~, do what one is compelled to do. 盛不得已的事。 make a virtue of accept credit without protest; claim credit for doing sth that one cannot help doing. 认可而不加抗议; 把不得不做的事当做应当做的事。 of ~, as a matter of ~. 必然; 必定; 不得已。 2 [C] sth that is necess-ary:, 必需品： The necessities of life, food, clothing and shelter. 生活必需品 (食物、衣服及住所) 。 3 [C] sth of which the absence or non-occurrence cannot be imagined: 必然的事; 绝不可无的事物： Is it a logical ~ that the cost of living will go up if wages go up? Can the one he considered possible without the other? 假如工资增加，生活费用也要增加，这是不是逻辑上必然的结果？ |
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