necessity

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n. 需要, 必需品, 必然 [法] 必要性, 必然性, 必要

发音

US /nɪˈsɛsəti/

词形变化

necessities 复数 necessities

别名

necessitie

教材释义与例句

名词

需要；必然性；必需品

释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.

    必要性

    必要

    要求

    需求

    可数 不可数

    I bought a new table out of necessity. My old one was ruined.

  2. 2.

    The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.

    必需品

    可数 不可数

    A tent is a necessity if you plan on camping.

    Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

  4. 4.

    Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.

    可数 不可数

    After eating a full meal, the human body's necessity for food will compel the person to eat again in the future.

  5. 5.

    The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.

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  6. 6.

    Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.

    可数 不可数 法律

    doctrine of necessity

  7. 7.

    Indispensable requirements (of life).

    可数 不可数 法律 复数形式

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

necessary essential requirement requisite

上位词 3

need thing demand

下位词 7

want need must urgency desideratum exigency requisiteness

相关短语

necessity is the mother of invention 需要是发明之母 necessity is the mother of innovation necessity knows no law necessity money necessity moneys make a virtue of necessity 把必须做的事装成出于好心做的 [法] 把非做不可的事装成出于好心而做的 doctrine of necessity work of necessity works of necessity makes a virtue of necessity making a virtue of necessity made a virtue of necessity money of necessity moneys of necessity doctrine of philosophical necessity

词源

From Middle English necessite, from Old French necessite, from Latin necessitās (“unavoidableness, compulsion, exigency, necessity”), from necesse (“unavoidable, inevitable”); see necessary. Doublet of Necessitas.

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