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单词 necessity
释义
necessity
noun
uk
/nəˈses.ə.ti/us
/nəˈses.ə.t̬i/
C1[U]
the need for something:
必要，需要
You can come early if youwantto, but there's no necessityforit.你如果愿意可以早点儿来，但不是非早来不可。
[+ to infinitive]Is there any necessitytoreplyto herletter?有必要给她回信吗?
Thereportstressesthe necessityofeatingplenty offreshfruitandvegetables.这份报告强调了大量食用新鲜水果及蔬菜的必要性。
With apersonalfortuneof sixty milliondollars, shecertainlydoesn'tworkout ofnecessity(= because sheneedsto).她有6000万美元的身家，当然不是为了生计而工作。
We'llemployextrastafftohelpout as and when the necessityarises(= when we need to).需要的时候我们会另雇员工帮忙。
C1[C]
something that you need,especiallyinordertolive:
必需的东西；（尤指）生活必需品
Webroughtonly thebarenecessities with us.我们只带了基本的必需品。
Heregardedmusicas one of life's necessities.他把音乐视作生活中必不可少的东西之一。
More examples
  • Eating is abiologicalnecessity!
  • I took thejobout of necessity because we had nomoneyleft.
  • With acouragebornof necessity, sheseizedthegunandranat him.
  • I had acoupleofmonthstosparebetweenjobsso IthoughtI'd make avirtueof necessity byacquiringa few newskills.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Essential or necessary
  • basically
  • basis
  • be a question ofdoing somethingidiom
  • box ticking
  • business-critical
  • dependence
  • elemental
  • if need beidiom
  • if/when push comes to shoveidiom
  • incumbent
  • indispensable
  • inhere insomething
  • necessitate
  • need
  • needed
  • needful
  • non-discretionary
  • owe
  • symbiotically
  • warrant
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Idiom

necessity is the mother of invention
(Definition ofnecessityfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

necessity| American Dictionary

necessity
noun[C/U]
us
/nəˈses·ɪ·t̬i/
the need for something, or something that isneeded:
[U]Don’t youunderstandthe necessity ofeatingabalanceddiet?
[U]She wasforcedto take thejobout of necessity.
[C]In mywork, acomputeris a necessity.
(Definition ofnecessityfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofnecessity

necessity
Conversely, it also seems fairly clear that no new logical necessities can come about as the result of the realization of any logical possibility.
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To give an objective answer to this question, it seems important to identify the range of extralinguistic sources in which necessities originate.
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Their important expenses were all for necessities: food, utilities, rent (where relevant), telephone and transportation.
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His policies were empirical, dictated by what he saw as the necessities of the immediate situation.
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We can, perhaps, imagine other beings with different natures who would not labor under these necessities.
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Most of the items in the secondary dimension, such as a car or a telephone, were not overwhelmingly regarded as necessities in 1987.
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He reports that households that cannot afford necessities (even two or more) invariably have a number of non-necessities, an average of eight.
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They are half naked, and almost entirely destitute of the common necessities of life.
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Temporal autonomy is the freedom to spend one's time as one pleases, outside the necessities of everyday life.
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The private developers also tried to satisfy the housing necessities of the working class.
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Analysis shows that a specific social form (say, feudalism or commodity production) mediates necessities of social reproduction (say, division of labor).
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Transforming a case about property rights and private, relational duties into a case about public necessities also deprived the railroad of its most powerful argument.
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First, does the entity "abstract labor" exist universally in all social formations - does it belong to the general necessities of human reproduction?
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In an isolated colonial outpost, economic levelling and the necessities of everyday life likely increased both interaction and material accommodation.
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In the case of the necessities poor (deprived), the odds of being income poor are comparatively small after subjective poverty is taken into account.
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Collocationswithnecessity

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absolute necessity
Demonstration of any expressive vocabulary would indicate that overt production is not anabsolutenecessityfor some expressive vocabulary growth to occur.
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basic necessity
I should have thought that an adequate and complete filing system was abasicnecessity.
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dire necessity
Coresidence of the aged with their children in the nineteenth century was not merely a form of old-age support, resorted to only in cases of dire necessity.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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