want
n. 需要的东西, 缺乏, 贫困, 需要 vt. 要, 希望, 应该, 缺少 vi. 生活困苦, 需要, 缺少
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教材释义与例句
需要；希望；应该；缺少
to have a desire for something
释义与例句
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A desire, wish, longing.
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Lack, absence, deficiency.
可数 不可数She showed a want of caution in renting her house to complete strangers.
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Poverty.
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Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
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A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
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A mole (Talpa europea).
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To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
及物I want you as a friend, not a foe.
What do you want to eat? I want you to leave. I never wanted to go back to live with my mother.
I want to find a supermarket. — Oh, okay. The supermarket is at 1500 Irving Street. It is near the apartment. — Great!
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To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
及物 引申义The game developers of Candy Crush want you to waste large, copious amounts of your money on in-game purchases to buy boosters and lives.
Depression wants you to feel like the world is dark and that you are not worthy of happiness. The first step to making your life better from this day forward is to stop believing these lies.
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To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
及物Ma’am, you are exactly the professional we want for this job.
Danish police want him for embezzlement.
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To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
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不及物You can leave if you want.
TYRION: You don't want it? BRAN: I don't really want anymore.
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To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
非正式You’ll want to repeat this three or four times to get the best result.
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To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
非正式 及物That chair wants fixing and a clean.
What you really want is a good smack!
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To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
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To be lacking or deficient or absent.
过时 不及物There was something wanting in the play.
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To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
过时 不及物The paupers desperately want.
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To lack and be without, to not have (something).
古体 及物She wanted anything she needed.
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To lack and perhaps be able or willing to do without.
废旧 及物 引申义1789 Robert Burns: Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary The Devil got notice that Grose was a-dying So whip! at the summons, old Satan came flying; But when he approached where poor Francis lay moaning, And saw each bed-post with its burthen a-groaning, Astonish'd, confounded, cries Satan-"By God, I'll want him, ere I take such a damnable load!"
1880 Robert Louis Stevenson. Kidnapped "Are ye sharp-set?" he asked, glancing at about the level of my knee. "Ye can eat that drop parritch." I said I feared it was his own supper. "Oh," said he, "I can do fine wanting it, I'll take the ale, though, for it slockens my cough." He drank the cup about half out, still keeping an eye upon me as he drank...
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To desire a romantic or (especially) sexual relationship with someone; to lust for.
Dang, girl! Your brother is gorgeous! I want him so bad!
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From Middle English wanten (“to lack, to need”), from Old Norse vanta (“to lack”), from Proto-Germanic *wanatōną (“to be wanting, lack”), from *wanô (“lack, deficiency”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”). Cognate with Middle High German wan (“not full, empty”), Middle Dutch wan (“empty, poor”), Old English wana (“want, lack, absence, deficiency”), Latin vanus (“empty”). See wan, wan-.
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