needs
adv. (现与must前后连用)必须,一定,务必
v. 需要,必须( need的第三人称单数 ); (表示应该或不得不做)有必要
If you need something, or need to do something, you cannot successfully achieve what you want or live properly without it.
He desperately needed money...
他迫切需要钱。
These diets provide everything your body needs...
这些饮食提供了你身体需要的所有营养。
If an object or place needs something doing to it, that action should be done to improve the object or place. If a task needs doing, it should be done to improve a particular situation.
The building needs quite a few repairs.
该建筑有好几处应该修缮。
...a garden that needs tidying...
应该清整的花园
If there is a need for something, that thing would improve a situation or something cannot happen without it.
Mr Forrest believes there is a need for other similar schools throughout Britain...
福里斯特先生认为全英国都需要有类似的学校。
'I think we should see a specialist.' — 'I don't think there's any need for that.'...
“我想我们应该见见专家。”——“我认为没有任何必要。”
If you say that someone needn't do something, you are telling them not to do it, or advising or suggesting that they should not do it.
'I'll put the key in the window.' — 'You needn't bother,' he said gruffly...
“我会把钥匙放在窗户里。”——“不必麻烦了,”他粗声说道。
Look, you needn't shout...
嗨,你不必大喊大叫。
If you tell someone that they needn't do something, or that something needn't happen, you are telling them that that thing is not necessary, in order to make them feel better.
You needn't worry...
你不必担心。
This needn't take long, Simon...
西蒙,这花不了多长时间。
You use needn't when you are giving someone permission not to do something.
You needn't come again, if you don't want to...
如果你不想来,可以不用再来。
Well, you needn't tell me anything if you don't want to.
好吧,如果你不想告诉我,可以什么也不说。
If something need not be true, it is not necessarily true or not always true.
What is right for us need not be right for others...
对我们来说是对的东西,对别人来说未必正确。
Freedom need not mean independence.
自由不一定意味着独立。
If someone needn't have done something, it was not necessary or useful for them to do it, although they did it.
She could have made the sandwich herself; her mum needn't have bothered to do anything...
她本来可以自己做三明治的;她妈妈原本不必费心做任何事情。
I was a little nervous when I announced my engagement to Grace, but I needn't have worried...
我宣布和格雷丝订婚时有点紧张,但我本不必担心的。
You use need in expressions such as I need hardly say and I needn't add to emphasize that the person you are talking to already knows what you are going to say.
I needn't add that if you fail to do as I ask, you will suffer the consequences.
如果你没按我的要求做的话,后果请自负——这话我就不必再说了吧。
You can use need in expressions such as 'Need I say more' and 'Need I go on' when you want to avoid stating an obvious consequence of something you have just said.
Mid-fifties, short black hair, grey moustache, distinctive Russian accent. Need I go on?
五十四五岁,黑色短发,灰色八字胡,明显的俄国口音,还需要我继续说吗?
People in need do not have enough of essential things such as money, food, or good health.
The education authorities have to provide for children in need...
教育主管部门得救助贫困儿童。
Remember that when both of you were in need, I was the one who loaned you money.
记住,在你们两个都有困难的时候,是我借钱给你们的。
If you are in need of something, you need it or ought to have it.
I was all right but in need of rest...
我没事,就是需要休息一下。
He was badly in need of a shave...
他早就应该刮一下胡子了。
If you say that you will do something, especially an extreme action, if need be, you mean that you will do if it is necessary. In British English, you can also say if needs be .
They will now seek permission to take their case to the House of Lords, and, if need be, to the European Court of Human Rights.
他们现在将争取获准将案件呈交上议院审理,并且,如有必要,会上诉到欧洲人权法院。
You can tell someone that there's no need for them to do something as a way of telling them not to do it or of telling them to stop doing it, for example because it is unnecessary.
There's no need to call a doctor...
没有必要叫医生。
There's no need for that kind of language in this magazine...
这份杂志没必要出现那种语言。
You can say 'Who needs something?' as a way of emphasizing that you think that this thing is unnecessary or not useful.
With apologies to my old history teacher, who needs history lessons?...
这话对不住我亲爱的历史老师,不过有谁需要历史课呢?
Cigarettes, who needs them?
香烟,谁会要呀?
1. in such a manner as could not be otherwise;
must needs (或 needs must) do something
必须,不得不
needs must
必须,不得不
needs must when the Devil drives
(谚)情势所迫,只得如此
The watch needs cleaning and oiling.
这表需要擦油泥.
A good novelist needs great power of conception.
一个好的小说家需要丰富的想象力.
It needs skill to tune a piano.
调准钢琴需要技巧.
China needs to assimilate a good deal of foreign progressive culture, but she must not swallow anything and everything uncritically.
中国需要大量吸收外国的进步文化, 但决不能无批判地兼收并蓄.
He needs no trappings of fame.
他不需要名声的虚饰.