n. 需要, 必须, 缺乏

vt. 需要, 必需

vi. 贫困, 有必要

aux. 需要

[法] 需要, 必要, 必需品

Need \Need\ (n[=e]d), n. [OE. need, neod, nede, AS. ne['a]d,
n[=y]d; akin to D. nood, G. not, noth, Icel. nau[eth]r, Sw. &
Dan. n["o]d, Goth. nau[thorn]s.]
1. A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion
for something; necessity; urgent want.

And the city had no need of the sun. --Rev. xxi.
23.

I have no need to beg. --Shak.

Be governed by your needs, not by your fancy. --Jer.
Taylor.

2. Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence;
destitution. --Chaucer.

Famine is in thy cheeks;
Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes. --Shak.

3. That which is needful; anything necessary to be done;
(pl.) necessary things; business. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

4. Situation of need; peril; danger. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Syn: Exigency; emergency; strait; extremity; necessity;
distress; destitution; poverty; indigence; want; penury.

Usage: {Need}, {Necessity}. Necessity is stronger than need;
it places us under positive compulsion. We are
frequently under the necessity of going without that
of which we stand very greatly in need. It is also
with the corresponding adjectives; necessitous
circumstances imply the direct pressure of suffering;
needy circumstances, the want of aid or relief.


Need \Need\, v. i.
To be wanted; to be necessary. --Chaucer.

When we have done it, we have done all that is in our
power, and all that needs. --Locke.


Need \Need\, adv.
Of necessity. See {Needs}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.


Need \Need\ (n[=e]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Needed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Needing}.] [See {Need}, n. Cf. AS. n[=y]dan to force,
Goth. nau[thorn]jan.]
To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to
require, as supply or relief.

Other creatures all day long
Rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest. --Milton.

Note: With another verb, need is used like an auxiliary,
generally in a negative sentence expressing requirement
or obligation, and in this use it undergoes no change
of termination in the third person singular of the
present tense. ``And the lender need not fear he shall
be injured.'' --Anacharsis (Trans. ).