needn't

need not之缩写

发音

AU /niːdn̩t/

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    Need not.

    正式 文学

    I needn’t have washed the car: shortly after it started raining.

    ‘Oh no,’ said the boy casually. ‘I won’t think much about them, mother. You needn’t worry. I wouldn’t worry, mother, if I were you.’ / ‘If you were me and I were you’, said his mother, ‘I wonder what we should do!’ / ‘But you know you needn’t worry, mother, don’t you?’ the boy repeated.

词源

need + -n't.

来源:wiktionary