核心畫面

Picture packing a bag and going through it twice: the things you would like to bring can come out, but a few things stay in no matter what — you simply cannot go without them. Necessity is that short list, and the pressure behind it: not what you want, but what there is no way around.

可以想成:整理行李時再檢查一遍,想帶的東西可以拿出來,但有幾樣不管怎樣都得留在裡面,少了就是不行。necessity更多收起可以想成:整理行李時再檢查一遍,想帶的東西可以拿出來,但有幾樣不管怎樣都得留在裡面,少了就是不行。necessity 講的就是那份短短的清單,以及背後那股「沒有別的辦法」的壓力——重點不在想不想要,而在繞不過去。

From the picture

逼出來的、不得不做

把清單上的壓力放到行動上:不是你選的,是情況把路都堵住了,只剩這一條。這裡帶著一點無奈,用的人通常是在解釋自己為什麼這樣做。

necessity (unavoidable duty) · noun · B2

Something that must happen or must be done, even when you do not like it.

不得不做的事;無奈之舉

只活在固定說法裡

這一支不是 necessity 單獨的新意思,而是兩個固定說法把它包在裡面。學的時候要整串記,拆開來單用是不通的。

of necessity · noun · C1

Used in the phrase of necessity to say that something happens in the only way it can happen.

必然地;不得不(of necessity)

Also in this word

necessity (essential item) · noun · B1

Something you must have in order to live, work, or do something important — not just for fun.

必需品

necessity (being needed) · noun · B2

The fact that something is needed, or that someone must do it.

必要性;需要

原始詞典資料7 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。

necessitynoun/nɪˈsɛsəti/

  • 1

    The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.

    • I bought a new table out of necessity. My old one was ruined.
    • Educating the public about some of the myths that underlie their fears that non-traditional families will of necessity be detrimental to the well-being of foster children.
  • 2

    The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.

    • For it is in vain for a man to think to seek God in his necessity and exigence, if he seek not God in his ordinances, and do not joy in them.
  • 3

    Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.

    • A tent is a necessity if you plan on camping.
    • Look for the bare necessities / The simple bare necessities / Forget about your worries and your strife
  • 4

    Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.

    • After eating a full meal, the human body's necessity for food will compel the person to eat again in the future.
    • I stopped, and said with inly muttered voice, 'It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold: This neither is its courage nor its choice, But its necessity in being old.
  • 5

    The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.

  • 6

    lawGreater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.

    • doctrine of necessity
  • 7

    lawIndispensable requirements (of life).

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