喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can think of necessary as 'you cannot do without it' — take it away and things break down or stop working. Everything else is this same can't-go-without applied to logic, to trade-offs, or to the basic things of life.

可以想成「少了它就不行」：把它拿掉，事情就垮了或做不成。necessary 的核心畫面比較像一個你繞不過去的東西——…更多收起可以想成「少了它就不行」：把它拿掉，事情就垮了或做不成。necessary 的核心畫面比較像一個你繞不過去的東西——不管是做事少不了的條件、邏輯上避不開的結果，還是活下去最起碼要有的東西，都是同一個「沒它不行」往不同方向延伸。

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名詞:不能沒有的東西

同一個「沒它不行」,從形容它的性質,變成直接拿來指那些少不了的東西或非做不可的事。

basic necessities · noun · B1

The basic things, such as food or clothes, that you need in order to live. Used in the plural: "the necessaries."

生活必需品

Also in this word

needed · adjective · B1

Something that you need to have or need to do; you cannot manage well without it.

必要的

unavoidable result · adjective · B1

A result or connection that must happen and cannot be avoided.

必然的

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Necessaryname

  • 1

    A surname.

necessaryadj/ˈnɛs.ə.sɹi/

  • 1

    Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.

    • Although I wished to think that all was false, it was yet necessary that I, who thus thought, must in some sense exist.
    • It is absolutely necessary that you call and confirm your appointment.
  • 2

    Unavoidable, inevitable.

    • If it is absolutely necessary to use public computers, you should plan ahead and forward your e-mail to a temporary, disposable account.
    • Cæs. Cowards dye many times before their deaths, The valiant neuer taste of death but once: Of all the Wonders that I yet haue heard, It seemes to me most strange that men should feare, Seeing that death, a necessary end Will come, when it will come.
  • 3

    obsoleteDetermined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.

    • But that a necessary being should give birth to a being with any amount, however limited, of moral freedom, is infinitely less conceivable than that parents of the insect or fish type should give birth to a perfect mammal.

necessarynoun/ˈnɛs.ə.sɹi/

  • 1

    archaicA place to do the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory.

    • It soon became fashionable for even the poorest families to have a necessary not far from their cabin. […] The more affluent settlers painted their necessarys in bright colors and carved their names on the doors.
  • 2

    obsoleteNecessity.

    • […] loss of that whole dominion of New England, and consequently of their Majesties' other American Plantations, endangered not only by the want of provisions, but by the many ships, vessels, seamen and other necessarys in New England, ...

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。