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You can picture need as a gap that has to be filled — there's something missing, and without it you can't keep going, stay healthy, or get the job done. It's stronger than just wanting: a want is nice to have, a need is the thing you'd break down without. Every use circles this hole: name what's missing and necessary, the feeling of that lack, or the rule that you'd better do something to fill it.

可以想成：一個非填不可的缺口——少了某樣東西，你就沒辦法繼續、沒辦法好好活、或沒辦法把事情做成。它比單純的「想要」更…更多收起可以想成：一個非填不可的缺口——少了某樣東西，你就沒辦法繼續、沒辦法好好活、或沒辦法把事情做成。它比單純的「想要」更重：想要是有了更好，需要是少了會垮。所有用法都繞著這個洞打轉：點出那個缺、又非有不可的東西，那種匱乏的感覺，或是「最好去做某事把它補上」的那層意思。

原始詞典資料8 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。

neednoun詞源 1/niːd/

  • 1

    A requirement for something; something needed.

    • There's no need to speculate; we can easily find out for sure.
    • She grew irritated with his constant need for attention.
  • 2

    A desire or craving for the satisfaction of a requirement perceived as essential or primal.

  • 3

    Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

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

needverb詞源 2/niːd/

  • 1

    To have an absolute requirement for.

    • Living things need water to survive.
    • You do not always need to go to the library to study. You may use the Internet.
  • 2

    To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.

    • After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave.
    • Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
  • 3

    To be obliged or required (to do something).

    • I need not go if I don't want to, need I?
    • I was wondering if I need fill in more forms. - No, that's the only one you need fill out.
  • 4

    To be required; to be necessary.

    • When we have done it, we have done our duty, and all that is in our power, and indeed all that needs.
    • Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.
  • 5

    obsoleteTo be necessary (to someone).

    • More ample spirit, then hitherto was wount, / Here needes me […]

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。