need
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)(countable and uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed.
There's no need to speculate; we can easily find out for sure.
She grew irritated with his constant need for attention.
Our needs are not being met.
I've always tried to have few needs beyond food, clothing and shelter.
Đồng nghĩa: occasion, use
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)A desire or craving for the satisfaction of a requirement perceived as essential or primal.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To have an absolute requirement for.
Living things need water to survive.
You do not always need to go to the library to study. You may use the Internet.
- 2.
(transitive)To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave.
- 3.
(modal)(modal, chiefly in the negative and interrogative) To be obliged or required (to do something).
I need not go if I don't want to, need I?
I was wondering if I need fill in more forms. - No, that's the only one you need fill out.
I need never have packed my set of sunglasses - it rained all day every day.
- 4.
(intransitive)To be required; to be necessary.
- 5.
(obsolete, transitive)To be necessary (to someone).
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From Middle English need, nede, a merger of two terms: * Old English nīed (West Saxon), nēd (Mercian), nēad (necessity, compulsion, want), from *naudi, from Proto-Germanic *naudiz, from Proto-Indo-European *neh₂w- (death). * Old English nēod (desire, longing), from *niudi (desire, eagerness), from Proto-Indo-European *new- (to incline, tend, move, push, nod, wave).