needing
v. 需要,必須( need的現在分詞 ); (表示應該或不得不做)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...
他迫切需要錢。
These diets provide everything your body needs...
這些飲食提供了你身體需要的所有營養。
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.
該建築有好幾處應該修繕。
...a garden that needs tidying...
應該清整的花園
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...
福里斯特先生認為全英國都需要有類似的學校。
'I think we should see a specialist.' — 'I don't think there's any need for that.'...
“我想我們應該見見專家。”——“我認為沒有任何必要。”
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...
“我會把鑰匙放在窗戶裡。”——“不必麻煩了,”他粗聲說道。
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...
你不必擔心。
This needn't take long, Simon...
西蒙,這花不了多長時間。
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...
如果你不想來,可以不用再來。
Well, you needn't tell me anything if you don't want to.
好吧,如果你不想告訴我,可以什麼也不說。
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...
對我們來說是對的東西,對別人來說未必正確。
Freedom need not mean independence.
自由不一定意味著獨立。
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...
她本來可以自己做三明治的;她媽媽原本不必費心做任何事情。
I was a little nervous when I announced my engagement to Grace, but I needn't have worried...
我宣佈和格雷絲訂婚時有點緊張,但我本不必擔心的。
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.
如果你沒按我的要求做的話,後果請自負——這話我就不必再說了吧。
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?
五十四五歲,黑色短髮,灰色八字鬍,明顯的俄國口音,還需要我繼續說嗎?
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...
教育主管部門得救助貧困兒童。
Remember that when both of you were in need, I was the one who loaned you money.
記住,在你們兩個都有困難的時候,是我借錢給你們的。
If you are in need of something, you need it or ought to have it.
I was all right but in need of rest...
我沒事,就是需要休息一下。
He was badly in need of a shave...
他早就應該刮一下鬍子了。
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.
他們現在將爭取獲准將案件呈交上議院審理,並且,如有必要,會上訴到歐洲人權法院。
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...
沒有必要叫醫生。
There's no need for that kind of language in this magazine...
這份雜誌沒必要出現那種語言。
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?...
這話對不住我親愛的歷史老師,不過有誰需要歷史課呢?
Cigarettes, who needs them?
香菸,誰會要呀?
Every eventuality is covered, from running out of petrol to needing water.
從汽油耗盡到用水緊缺,所有可能發生的事情都考慮到了。
The longer your child can go without needing a filling, the better.
孩子越晚需要補牙就越好。
I will be needing a new pair of shorts soon.
我很快就需要一條新短褲.
The houses were all the same— square, close to the street, needing paint.
房子都一模一樣——方方正正、臨近街道、需要粉刷。
Orthodoxy means not thinking -- not needing to think.
正統的意思,是不要去想 —— 不需要想.