Definition of necessary in English:

necessary

adjective ˈnɛsəs(ə)riˈnɛsəˌsɛri

1Needed to be done, achieved, or present; essential.
必要的；必须的；必需的；根本的
they granted the necessary planning permission
他们批准了必需的规划许可。
it's not necessary for you to be here
你没必要到这里来。
Example sentencesExamples
- Please could you send me the necessary paperwork required to begin this procedure.
- Because the dealer may not follow through on completing and filing the necessary paperwork.
- I imagine that the Minister and her officials would take whatever steps they deemed necessary to deal with the demand.
- I didn't tell you because it didn't seem necessary at the time.
- Killing wasn't fun or heroic; it was simply sometimes necessary for survival.
- A jury of experts reviewed a draft of the survey and made changes where necessary.
- Now, they feel it necessary to protect themselves'.
- Many developing countries may lack the resources necessary to prevent such outbreaks.
- The question then is, what steps are reasonably necessary to the attainment of that purpose?
- The interference must go no further than is strictly necessary to achieve its permitted purpose.
- After considering these two requirements, the court may still find it necessary to consider a third factor.
- A social worker will be able to help fill out all of the necessary paperwork.
- I do not find it necessary to consider these definitions for present purposes.
- The minister's approval was necessary for the purpose of control and accountability.
- My policy is to ignore readers who feel it necessary to resort to insults.
- Often it's impossible for the architect of a company to make the changes necessary to ensure it survives.
- Remedies are then prescribed where necessary in order to balance the energy to produce a positive effect.
- Eva takes the boy in but does not give him the skills necessary for his survival.
- We do not think it necessary to consider this issue at length.
- We had always stayed out of each others private business, prying only when we deemed it absolutely necessary.
- Procedural safeguards are also necessary to ensure that the powers are used properly.
- Ask yourself what could possibly go wrong and then take preventive actions where necessary.
- But hunting with dogs is not natural or necessary in our society today.
Synonyms
obligatory, requisite, required, compulsory, mandatory, imperative, demanded, needed, called for, needful
essential, indispensable, vital, of the essence, incumbent
French de rigueur
2Determined, existing, or happening by natural laws or predestination; inevitable.
必然的；不可避免的
a necessary consequence
必然的结果。
Example sentencesExamples
- A necessary consequence of this is that, where they are in conflict, statute law prevails over the common law.
- That delay was to a large extent a necessary consequence of the splitting of the allegations into separate trials.
- Perhaps you may think that in this case the continuation of such stringent and draconian sanctions is a regrettable but necessary consequence.
- The principal weakness is that there is no necessary consequence for the validity of a law which is successfully impugned.
- The necessary consequence is that there had to be a redefinition of the rights and obligations of the parents, and of those with care of children.
- Other disciplines and artistic representation are an inevitable and necessary part of the mix.
- So urgency cannot be construed as a strictly necessary condition for the status of an impulse or desire as addictive.
- How can one responsibly teach writers who use the reader's revulsion and horror as necessary responses?
- I suppose that if we allow non-resident citizens to vote, this is a necessary consequence.
- Some home truths about the migration of people need to be remembered and the necessary consequences drawn.
- The magazine, he says, is ‘a necessary consequence of their superstar status’.
- It was an almost necessary consequence of using lenses.
- However, that was no more than the necessary consequence of the change in the legislation.
- But maintaining the separation of church and state is a necessary precondition of liberty.
- But biodiversity is a necessary precondition for the long-term maintenance of biological resources.
- If the answer is still yes, you must accept all the necessary consequences.
- It is not a necessary consequence, or a condition, of industrialization.
- He saw radical skepticism as a necessary consequence of the misery of the human condition.
- As much as I'd like to think that spying doesn't happen, it's going to happen as a necessary consequence of competition.
- Changes in the direction and rate of relative plate motion are necessary consequences of the evolution of plate mosaics.
- The necessary consequence of this was political centralization.
Synonyms
inevitable, unavoidable, certain, sure, inescapable, inexorable, ineluctable, fated, destined, predetermined, predestined, preordained
1. 2.1Philosophy (of a concept, statement, etc.) inevitably resulting from the nature of things, so that the contrary is impossible.
  〔哲〕（观念、陈述或判断等）具有必然性的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Bacon and Locke had discussed the question of a necessary knowledge of nature from a scholastic standpoint.
  The phenomenon of decadence is as necessary as any increase and advance of life: one is in no position to abolish it.
  If it is shown that the opinion actually formed is not an opinion of this character, then the necessary opinion does not exist.
  We ought not to be surprised when Hamlet refers to some necessary question of the play.
  There could be no solution, they claimed, until the mind first grasped the necessary idea.
2. 2.2Philosophy (of an agent) having no independent volition.
  〔哲〕（行为者）迫不得已的，非做不行的，非自愿的
  Example sentencesExamples
  The sixth is that if a man were not a necessary agent he would be ignorant of morality and have no motive to practice it.

noun ˈnɛsəs(ə)riˈnɛsəˌsɛri

usually necessaries

1The basic requirements of life, such as food and warmth.
生活必需品
not merely luxuries, but also the common necessaries
poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life
Example sentencesExamples
- To their credit, Pollack and his scriptwriters have tried to tackle all the necessaries of a proper old style political thriller head on.
- Two or three trips out for provisions and necessaries for the immediate works have given us our first close-hand contact with the beautiful landscape.
- I picked up enough consumables and necessaries to tide us over the next couple of days.
- Lots of worthwhile things got done today, domestic things, keeping the small ship of our household trim and balanced, clean and supplied with the necessaries.
- Shelter, medicine, basic schooling, and even necessaries like food and water were now being provided to the million upon million of starving adults, and their children.
- She had spent an hour or so showing the captain the necessaries in caring for his mother, and had promised to stop by the following afternoon, just to check on things.
- Taxes on luxuries have some advantage over taxes on necessaries.
- There was some space left over in my trolley when I'd bought the necessaries so I filled it up with Christmas booze.
- And if you look to the bottom of the bag, you'll find your necessaries.
- Work was about to be resumed at the Emergency Kitchen for the relief of the sick poor of York, which was for the immediate relief of all poor persons who were ill, and too poor to afford the pressing necessaries their sufferings required.
- But back then florists seemed rather more in touch with the real world and would provide a few bunches of the cheapest blooms you could have for the small change left after shopping for necessaries.
- I shall have to use a jar of pre-made sauce for that because I'm not geared up with necessaries for sauce making yet.
- Others resort to exploitation, as in the case of an injured officer who, with the help of a resentful assistant, attempts to trade tobacco leaves with the retreating soldiers in exchange for food and other necessaries.
- He could supply drovers with all necessaries, including the best brands of liquors and fresh water.
- There wasn't time for a full shop so I confined myself to the small list of necessaries I'd scribbled down.
- However, my CD drive is broken, and I specifically checked when I ordered that it would be possible to download the necessaries from the internet.
- Bread, margarine, orange juice, jam, fruit and veg, cereals, milk, meat, biscuits and some other necessaries such as kitchen towels, toothpaste, beer and disposable nappies.
- At the time of writing his Wealth of Nations, Smith noted that only four necessaries were subject to tax in Great Britain, specifically salt, leather, soap and candles.
- And a big plus is that it's not too trendy to supply the necessaries for making coffee and tea.
- After about another hour of going through information, records, and other such necessaries, we finally were ready to leave, or so I thought.
- The ward nurse gave me a list of necessaries, beginning with soap and ending with a bedpan.
- This was the principal site for retailing victuals and other necessaries.
1. 1.1the necessaryinformal The action or item needed.
  see when they need a tactful word of advice and do the necessary
  注意他们何时需要巧妙的告诫或鼓励，然后做该做的事。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Of course, if she's busy reading or otherwise occupied, she sends the sprog in her place to do the necessary.
  As I empathised with the poor guy, I obliged him by doing the necessary.
  Unable to get the human variety, the club has hired a team of four llamas to do the necessary.
  I don't know if you all realize how much I hate being ill, anyhow, I am doing the necessary.
  Unafraid of blood and guts, I went with him to the top of the garden where he did the necessary.
2. 1.2the necessaryBritish informal The money needed.
  a bag containing my wallet: the money, the necessary
  Example sentencesExamples
  Paul, a successful model with ambitions to run his own place, came up with the necessary.

Phrases

a necessary evil

Something that is undesirable but must be accepted.
不想要但又必须接受的事物
for many, paying taxes is at best a necessary evil
Example sentencesExamples
- Despite this, the daily commute is considered by most to be a necessary evil to be tolerated in order to call a place your own.
- If this was making inroads into the problem then many Americans would reluctantly accept this as a necessary evil.
- I tried hating school, but I decided long ago that education was a necessary evil.
- We see some of these salaries as a necessary evil in order to attract good people to run our establishments!
- The department of sericulture, on the other hand, had accepted the problem of children working in silk factories as a necessary evil.
- So capitalism is indeed a necessary evil, and has been around ever since the beginning of human nature?
- State and local officials have come to view tax breaks and ‘incentives’ as a necessary evil.
- Forest fires are a necessary evil, argue scientists and government officials.
- To others, myself included, cleaning a dirty weapon is a necessary evil.
- They seem to see sprawl as a problem to be eliminated, not a necessary evil to be mitigated.
- They are seen as a necessary evil to promote stability and foreign investment in the region.
- We seem to accept death on the road as a necessary evil.
- But we are prepared to tolerate these noises as being a necessary evil.
- Animal testing is a necessary evil which will exist for many years to come.
- In fact they enter the course regarding cryptography as a necessary evil that must be endured in order for them to obtain an Information Security qualification.
- I can think of 1,000 things I would rather do with my time, but it's a necessary evil.
- They do not enhance the appearance of the district in which they are situated but are coming to be regarded as a necessary evil.
- Many investors say they care less for animal than human lives, taking the view that animal testing is a necessary evil if medical developments are to progress.
- But if lights are occasionally necessary, they are a necessary evil.
- Speed cameras - a necessary evil or just a way of bringing money in?
- So in that sense, I agree that litigation can be a necessary evil.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin necessarius, from necesse 'be needful'.

Definition of necessary in US English:

necessary

adjectiveˈnesəˌserēˈnɛsəˌsɛri

1Required to be done, achieved, or present; needed; essential.
必要的；必须的；必需的；根本的
it's not necessary for you to be here
你没必要到这里来。
members are admitted only after they have gained the necessary experience
Example sentencesExamples
- The minister's approval was necessary for the purpose of control and accountability.
- Eva takes the boy in but does not give him the skills necessary for his survival.
- Please could you send me the necessary paperwork required to begin this procedure.
- I imagine that the Minister and her officials would take whatever steps they deemed necessary to deal with the demand.
- A jury of experts reviewed a draft of the survey and made changes where necessary.
- We do not think it necessary to consider this issue at length.
- The interference must go no further than is strictly necessary to achieve its permitted purpose.
- The question then is, what steps are reasonably necessary to the attainment of that purpose?
- I do not find it necessary to consider these definitions for present purposes.
- A social worker will be able to help fill out all of the necessary paperwork.
- Often it's impossible for the architect of a company to make the changes necessary to ensure it survives.
- We had always stayed out of each others private business, prying only when we deemed it absolutely necessary.
- I didn't tell you because it didn't seem necessary at the time.
- Because the dealer may not follow through on completing and filing the necessary paperwork.
- Remedies are then prescribed where necessary in order to balance the energy to produce a positive effect.
- But hunting with dogs is not natural or necessary in our society today.
- Procedural safeguards are also necessary to ensure that the powers are used properly.
- Now, they feel it necessary to protect themselves'.
- After considering these two requirements, the court may still find it necessary to consider a third factor.
- Killing wasn't fun or heroic; it was simply sometimes necessary for survival.
- Ask yourself what could possibly go wrong and then take preventive actions where necessary.
- My policy is to ignore readers who feel it necessary to resort to insults.
- Many developing countries may lack the resources necessary to prevent such outbreaks.
Synonyms
obligatory, requisite, required, compulsory, mandatory, imperative, demanded, needed, called for, needful
2Determined, existing, or happening by natural laws or predestination; inevitable.
必然的；不可避免的
a necessary consequence
必然的结果。
Example sentencesExamples
- Other disciplines and artistic representation are an inevitable and necessary part of the mix.
- The principal weakness is that there is no necessary consequence for the validity of a law which is successfully impugned.
- The necessary consequence of this was political centralization.
- As much as I'd like to think that spying doesn't happen, it's going to happen as a necessary consequence of competition.
- I suppose that if we allow non-resident citizens to vote, this is a necessary consequence.
- That delay was to a large extent a necessary consequence of the splitting of the allegations into separate trials.
- Changes in the direction and rate of relative plate motion are necessary consequences of the evolution of plate mosaics.
- If the answer is still yes, you must accept all the necessary consequences.
- He saw radical skepticism as a necessary consequence of the misery of the human condition.
- However, that was no more than the necessary consequence of the change in the legislation.
- So urgency cannot be construed as a strictly necessary condition for the status of an impulse or desire as addictive.
- It is not a necessary consequence, or a condition, of industrialization.
- But maintaining the separation of church and state is a necessary precondition of liberty.
- The necessary consequence is that there had to be a redefinition of the rights and obligations of the parents, and of those with care of children.
- A necessary consequence of this is that, where they are in conflict, statute law prevails over the common law.
- The magazine, he says, is ‘a necessary consequence of their superstar status’.
- Some home truths about the migration of people need to be remembered and the necessary consequences drawn.
- But biodiversity is a necessary precondition for the long-term maintenance of biological resources.
- How can one responsibly teach writers who use the reader's revulsion and horror as necessary responses?
- It was an almost necessary consequence of using lenses.
- Perhaps you may think that in this case the continuation of such stringent and draconian sanctions is a regrettable but necessary consequence.
Synonyms
inevitable, unavoidable, certain, sure, inescapable, inexorable, ineluctable, fated, destined, predetermined, predestined, preordained
1. 2.1Philosophy (of a concept, statement, judgment, etc.) inevitably resulting from or produced by the nature of things, so that the contrary is impossible.
  〔哲〕（观念、陈述或判断等）具有必然性的
  Example sentencesExamples
  There could be no solution, they claimed, until the mind first grasped the necessary idea.
  The phenomenon of decadence is as necessary as any increase and advance of life: one is in no position to abolish it.
  Bacon and Locke had discussed the question of a necessary knowledge of nature from a scholastic standpoint.
  If it is shown that the opinion actually formed is not an opinion of this character, then the necessary opinion does not exist.
  We ought not to be surprised when Hamlet refers to some necessary question of the play.
2. 2.2Philosophy (of an agent) having no independent volition.
  〔哲〕（行为者）迫不得已的，非做不行的，非自愿的
  Example sentencesExamples
  The sixth is that if a man were not a necessary agent he would be ignorant of morality and have no motive to practice it.

nounˈnesəˌserēˈnɛsəˌsɛri

usually necessaries

1The basic requirements of life, such as food and warmth.
生活必需品
Example sentencesExamples
- I shall have to use a jar of pre-made sauce for that because I'm not geared up with necessaries for sauce making yet.
- Taxes on luxuries have some advantage over taxes on necessaries.
- There wasn't time for a full shop so I confined myself to the small list of necessaries I'd scribbled down.
- At the time of writing his Wealth of Nations, Smith noted that only four necessaries were subject to tax in Great Britain, specifically salt, leather, soap and candles.
- The ward nurse gave me a list of necessaries, beginning with soap and ending with a bedpan.
- This was the principal site for retailing victuals and other necessaries.
- Two or three trips out for provisions and necessaries for the immediate works have given us our first close-hand contact with the beautiful landscape.
- And a big plus is that it's not too trendy to supply the necessaries for making coffee and tea.
- However, my CD drive is broken, and I specifically checked when I ordered that it would be possible to download the necessaries from the internet.
- After about another hour of going through information, records, and other such necessaries, we finally were ready to leave, or so I thought.
- Others resort to exploitation, as in the case of an injured officer who, with the help of a resentful assistant, attempts to trade tobacco leaves with the retreating soldiers in exchange for food and other necessaries.
- Lots of worthwhile things got done today, domestic things, keeping the small ship of our household trim and balanced, clean and supplied with the necessaries.
- To their credit, Pollack and his scriptwriters have tried to tackle all the necessaries of a proper old style political thriller head on.
- She had spent an hour or so showing the captain the necessaries in caring for his mother, and had promised to stop by the following afternoon, just to check on things.
- There was some space left over in my trolley when I'd bought the necessaries so I filled it up with Christmas booze.
- I picked up enough consumables and necessaries to tide us over the next couple of days.
- He could supply drovers with all necessaries, including the best brands of liquors and fresh water.
- Work was about to be resumed at the Emergency Kitchen for the relief of the sick poor of York, which was for the immediate relief of all poor persons who were ill, and too poor to afford the pressing necessaries their sufferings required.
- Bread, margarine, orange juice, jam, fruit and veg, cereals, milk, meat, biscuits and some other necessaries such as kitchen towels, toothpaste, beer and disposable nappies.
- Shelter, medicine, basic schooling, and even necessaries like food and water were now being provided to the million upon million of starving adults, and their children.
- And if you look to the bottom of the bag, you'll find your necessaries.
- But back then florists seemed rather more in touch with the real world and would provide a few bunches of the cheapest blooms you could have for the small change left after shopping for necessaries.
1. 1.1 Small items required for a particular journey or purpose.
  I hastily threw a few necessaries into a kit bag
  Example sentencesExamples
  He wrote, ‘The accepted doctrine is, that capital is anything saved or reserved for the payment of labor not employed in, or devoted to the production of the immediate necessaries of life.’
  She took the position that Mark remained a child of the marriage under her charge and unable to withdraw from her charge or obtain the necessaries of life on his own by reason of illness, disability or other cause.
  In the Cariboo mining camps ‘train after train was coming in laden not with the necessaries of life, to keep poor men from starvation, but with whiskey, and Billiard Tables’
  The woman and her husband pleaded guilty in January to forcible confinement, assault with a weapon, and failure to provide the necessaries of life.
  It depends on the ability and willingness of each person applying for custody of the child to provide the child with guidance and education, the necessaries of life and any special needs.
  They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants.
  In the short term, the mother, because she is gainfully employed and will likely remain so, is better able to provide Michael with the material necessaries of life.
  On the other hand, the poor law unions had a legal obligation to ensure that nobody died of starvation, malnutrition, or ‘the want of the necessaries of life.’
  I was persuaded on the evidence that both parents were equally able and willing to provide the children with the guidance, education, and necessaries of life to meet the needs of the children.
  Thirdly, what is the ability and willingness of each party to provide guidance and education, the necessaries of life and special needs for Christien?

Phrases

a necessary evil

Something that is undesirable but must be accepted.
不想要但又必须接受的事物
Example sentencesExamples
- So in that sense, I agree that litigation can be a necessary evil.
- To others, myself included, cleaning a dirty weapon is a necessary evil.
- Many investors say they care less for animal than human lives, taking the view that animal testing is a necessary evil if medical developments are to progress.
- Forest fires are a necessary evil, argue scientists and government officials.
- Despite this, the daily commute is considered by most to be a necessary evil to be tolerated in order to call a place your own.
- They seem to see sprawl as a problem to be eliminated, not a necessary evil to be mitigated.
- If this was making inroads into the problem then many Americans would reluctantly accept this as a necessary evil.
- State and local officials have come to view tax breaks and ‘incentives’ as a necessary evil.
- Animal testing is a necessary evil which will exist for many years to come.
- We seem to accept death on the road as a necessary evil.
- So capitalism is indeed a necessary evil, and has been around ever since the beginning of human nature?
- They are seen as a necessary evil to promote stability and foreign investment in the region.
- I tried hating school, but I decided long ago that education was a necessary evil.
- I can think of 1,000 things I would rather do with my time, but it's a necessary evil.
- The department of sericulture, on the other hand, had accepted the problem of children working in silk factories as a necessary evil.
- But we are prepared to tolerate these noises as being a necessary evil.
- In fact they enter the course regarding cryptography as a necessary evil that must be endured in order for them to obtain an Information Security qualification.
- They do not enhance the appearance of the district in which they are situated but are coming to be regarded as a necessary evil.
- Speed cameras - a necessary evil or just a way of bringing money in?
- But if lights are occasionally necessary, they are a necessary evil.
- We see some of these salaries as a necessary evil in order to attract good people to run our establishments!

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin necessarius, from necesse ‘be needful’.

词汇	necessary
释义	Definition of necessary in English: necessary adjective ˈnɛsəs(ə)riˈnɛsəˌsɛri 1Needed to be done, achieved, or present; essential. 必要的；必须的；必需的；根本的 they granted the necessary planning permission 他们批准了必需的规划许可。 it's not necessary for you to be here 你没必要到这里来。 Example sentencesExamples Please could you send me the necessary paperwork required to begin this procedure. Because the dealer may not follow through on completing and filing the necessary paperwork. I imagine that the Minister and her officials would take whatever steps they deemed necessary to deal with the demand. I didn't tell you because it didn't seem necessary at the time. Killing wasn't fun or heroic; it was simply sometimes necessary for survival. A jury of experts reviewed a draft of the survey and made changes where necessary. Now, they feel it necessary to protect themselves'. Many developing countries may lack the resources necessary to prevent such outbreaks. The question then is, what steps are reasonably necessary to the attainment of that purpose? The interference must go no further than is strictly necessary to achieve its permitted purpose. After considering these two requirements, the court may still find it necessary to consider a third factor. A social worker will be able to help fill out all of the necessary paperwork. I do not find it necessary to consider these definitions for present purposes. The minister's approval was necessary for the purpose of control and accountability. My policy is to ignore readers who feel it necessary to resort to insults. Often it's impossible for the architect of a company to make the changes necessary to ensure it survives. Remedies are then prescribed where necessary in order to balance the energy to produce a positive effect. Eva takes the boy in but does not give him the skills necessary for his survival. We do not think it necessary to consider this issue at length. We had always stayed out of each others private business, prying only when we deemed it absolutely necessary. Procedural safeguards are also necessary to ensure that the powers are used properly. Ask yourself what could possibly go wrong and then take preventive actions where necessary. But hunting with dogs is not natural or necessary in our society today. Synonyms obligatory, requisite, required, compulsory, mandatory, imperative, demanded, needed, called for, needful essential, indispensable, vital, of the essence, incumbent French de rigueur 2Determined, existing, or happening by natural laws or predestination; inevitable. 必然的；不可避免的 a necessary consequence 必然的结果。 Example sentencesExamples A necessary consequence of this is that, where they are in conflict, statute law prevails over the common law. That delay was to a large extent a necessary consequence of the splitting of the allegations into separate trials. Perhaps you may think that in this case the continuation of such stringent and draconian sanctions is a regrettable but necessary consequence. The principal weakness is that there is no necessary consequence for the validity of a law which is successfully impugned. The necessary consequence is that there had to be a redefinition of the rights and obligations of the parents, and of those with care of children. Other disciplines and artistic representation are an inevitable and necessary part of the mix. So urgency cannot be construed as a strictly necessary condition for the status of an impulse or desire as addictive. How can one responsibly teach writers who use the reader's revulsion and horror as necessary responses? I suppose that if we allow non-resident citizens to vote, this is a necessary consequence. Some home truths about the migration of people need to be remembered and the necessary consequences drawn. The magazine, he says, is ‘a necessary consequence of their superstar status’. It was an almost necessary consequence of using lenses. However, that was no more than the necessary consequence of the change in the legislation. But maintaining the separation of church and state is a necessary precondition of liberty. But biodiversity is a necessary precondition for the long-term maintenance of biological resources. If the answer is still yes, you must accept all the necessary consequences. It is not a necessary consequence, or a condition, of industrialization. He saw radical skepticism as a necessary consequence of the misery of the human condition. As much as I'd like to think that spying doesn't happen, it's going to happen as a necessary consequence of competition. Changes in the direction and rate of relative plate motion are necessary consequences of the evolution of plate mosaics. The necessary consequence of this was political centralization. Synonyms inevitable, unavoidable, certain, sure, inescapable, inexorable, ineluctable, fated, destined, predetermined, predestined, preordained 2.1Philosophy (of a concept, statement, etc.) inevitably resulting from the nature of things, so that the contrary is impossible. 〔哲〕（观念、陈述或判断等）具有必然性的 Example sentencesExamples Bacon and Locke had discussed the question of a necessary knowledge of nature from a scholastic standpoint. The phenomenon of decadence is as necessary as any increase and advance of life: one is in no position to abolish it. If it is shown that the opinion actually formed is not an opinion of this character, then the necessary opinion does not exist. We ought not to be surprised when Hamlet refers to some necessary question of the play. There could be no solution, they claimed, until the mind first grasped the necessary idea. 2.2Philosophy (of an agent) having no independent volition. 〔哲〕（行为者）迫不得已的，非做不行的，非自愿的 Example sentencesExamples The sixth is that if a man were not a necessary agent he would be ignorant of morality and have no motive to practice it. noun ˈnɛsəs(ə)riˈnɛsəˌsɛri usually necessaries 1The basic requirements of life, such as food and warmth. 生活必需品 not merely luxuries, but also the common necessaries poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life Example sentencesExamples To their credit, Pollack and his scriptwriters have tried to tackle all the necessaries of a proper old style political thriller head on. Two or three trips out for provisions and necessaries for the immediate works have given us our first close-hand contact with the beautiful landscape. I picked up enough consumables and necessaries to tide us over the next couple of days. Lots of worthwhile things got done today, domestic things, keeping the small ship of our household trim and balanced, clean and supplied with the necessaries. Shelter, medicine, basic schooling, and even necessaries like food and water were now being provided to the million upon million of starving adults, and their children. She had spent an hour or so showing the captain the necessaries in caring for his mother, and had promised to stop by the following afternoon, just to check on things. Taxes on luxuries have some advantage over taxes on necessaries. There was some space left over in my trolley when I'd bought the necessaries so I filled it up with Christmas booze. And if you look to the bottom of the bag, you'll find your necessaries. Work was about to be resumed at the Emergency Kitchen for the relief of the sick poor of York, which was for the immediate relief of all poor persons who were ill, and too poor to afford the pressing necessaries their sufferings required. But back then florists seemed rather more in touch with the real world and would provide a few bunches of the cheapest blooms you could have for the small change left after shopping for necessaries. I shall have to use a jar of pre-made sauce for that because I'm not geared up with necessaries for sauce making yet. Others resort to exploitation, as in the case of an injured officer who, with the help of a resentful assistant, attempts to trade tobacco leaves with the retreating soldiers in exchange for food and other necessaries. He could supply drovers with all necessaries, including the best brands of liquors and fresh water. There wasn't time for a full shop so I confined myself to the small list of necessaries I'd scribbled down. However, my CD drive is broken, and I specifically checked when I ordered that it would be possible to download the necessaries from the internet. Bread, margarine, orange juice, jam, fruit and veg, cereals, milk, meat, biscuits and some other necessaries such as kitchen towels, toothpaste, beer and disposable nappies. At the time of writing his Wealth of Nations, Smith noted that only four necessaries were subject to tax in Great Britain, specifically salt, leather, soap and candles. And a big plus is that it's not too trendy to supply the necessaries for making coffee and tea. After about another hour of going through information, records, and other such necessaries, we finally were ready to leave, or so I thought. The ward nurse gave me a list of necessaries, beginning with soap and ending with a bedpan. This was the principal site for retailing victuals and other necessaries. 1.1the necessaryinformal The action or item needed. see when they need a tactful word of advice and do the necessary 注意他们何时需要巧妙的告诫或鼓励，然后做该做的事。 Example sentencesExamples Of course, if she's busy reading or otherwise occupied, she sends the sprog in her place to do the necessary. As I empathised with the poor guy, I obliged him by doing the necessary. Unable to get the human variety, the club has hired a team of four llamas to do the necessary. I don't know if you all realize how much I hate being ill, anyhow, I am doing the necessary. Unafraid of blood and guts, I went with him to the top of the garden where he did the necessary. 1.2the necessaryBritish informal The money needed. a bag containing my wallet: the money, the necessary Example sentencesExamples Paul, a successful model with ambitions to run his own place, came up with the necessary. Phrases a necessary evil Something that is undesirable but must be accepted. 不想要但又必须接受的事物 for many, paying taxes is at best a necessary evil Example sentencesExamples Despite this, the daily commute is considered by most to be a necessary evil to be tolerated in order to call a place your own. If this was making inroads into the problem then many Americans would reluctantly accept this as a necessary evil. I tried hating school, but I decided long ago that education was a necessary evil. We see some of these salaries as a necessary evil in order to attract good people to run our establishments! The department of sericulture, on the other hand, had accepted the problem of children working in silk factories as a necessary evil. So capitalism is indeed a necessary evil, and has been around ever since the beginning of human nature? State and local officials have come to view tax breaks and ‘incentives’ as a necessary evil. Forest fires are a necessary evil, argue scientists and government officials. To others, myself included, cleaning a dirty weapon is a necessary evil. They seem to see sprawl as a problem to be eliminated, not a necessary evil to be mitigated. They are seen as a necessary evil to promote stability and foreign investment in the region. We seem to accept death on the road as a necessary evil. But we are prepared to tolerate these noises as being a necessary evil. Animal testing is a necessary evil which will exist for many years to come. In fact they enter the course regarding cryptography as a necessary evil that must be endured in order for them to obtain an Information Security qualification. I can think of 1,000 things I would rather do with my time, but it's a necessary evil. They do not enhance the appearance of the district in which they are situated but are coming to be regarded as a necessary evil. Many investors say they care less for animal than human lives, taking the view that animal testing is a necessary evil if medical developments are to progress. But if lights are occasionally necessary, they are a necessary evil. Speed cameras - a necessary evil or just a way of bringing money in? So in that sense, I agree that litigation can be a necessary evil. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin necessarius, from necesse 'be needful'. adj.1 phr. Definition of necessary in US English: necessary adjectiveˈnesəˌserēˈnɛsəˌsɛri 1Required to be done, achieved, or present; needed; essential. 必要的；必须的；必需的；根本的 it's not necessary for you to be here 你没必要到这里来。 members are admitted only after they have gained the necessary experience Example sentencesExamples The minister's approval was necessary for the purpose of control and accountability. Eva takes the boy in but does not give him the skills necessary for his survival. Please could you send me the necessary paperwork required to begin this procedure. I imagine that the Minister and her officials would take whatever steps they deemed necessary to deal with the demand. A jury of experts reviewed a draft of the survey and made changes where necessary. We do not think it necessary to consider this issue at length. The interference must go no further than is strictly necessary to achieve its permitted purpose. The question then is, what steps are reasonably necessary to the attainment of that purpose? I do not find it necessary to consider these definitions for present purposes. A social worker will be able to help fill out all of the necessary paperwork. Often it's impossible for the architect of a company to make the changes necessary to ensure it survives. We had always stayed out of each others private business, prying only when we deemed it absolutely necessary. I didn't tell you because it didn't seem necessary at the time. Because the dealer may not follow through on completing and filing the necessary paperwork. Remedies are then prescribed where necessary in order to balance the energy to produce a positive effect. But hunting with dogs is not natural or necessary in our society today. Procedural safeguards are also necessary to ensure that the powers are used properly. Now, they feel it necessary to protect themselves'. After considering these two requirements, the court may still find it necessary to consider a third factor. Killing wasn't fun or heroic; it was simply sometimes necessary for survival. Ask yourself what could possibly go wrong and then take preventive actions where necessary. My policy is to ignore readers who feel it necessary to resort to insults. Many developing countries may lack the resources necessary to prevent such outbreaks. Synonyms obligatory, requisite, required, compulsory, mandatory, imperative, demanded, needed, called for, needful 2Determined, existing, or happening by natural laws or predestination; inevitable. 必然的；不可避免的 a necessary consequence 必然的结果。 Example sentencesExamples Other disciplines and artistic representation are an inevitable and necessary part of the mix. The principal weakness is that there is no necessary consequence for the validity of a law which is successfully impugned. The necessary consequence of this was political centralization. As much as I'd like to think that spying doesn't happen, it's going to happen as a necessary consequence of competition. I suppose that if we allow non-resident citizens to vote, this is a necessary consequence. That delay was to a large extent a necessary consequence of the splitting of the allegations into separate trials. Changes in the direction and rate of relative plate motion are necessary consequences of the evolution of plate mosaics. If the answer is still yes, you must accept all the necessary consequences. He saw radical skepticism as a necessary consequence of the misery of the human condition. However, that was no more than the necessary consequence of the change in the legislation. So urgency cannot be construed as a strictly necessary condition for the status of an impulse or desire as addictive. It is not a necessary consequence, or a condition, of industrialization. But maintaining the separation of church and state is a necessary precondition of liberty. The necessary consequence is that there had to be a redefinition of the rights and obligations of the parents, and of those with care of children. A necessary consequence of this is that, where they are in conflict, statute law prevails over the common law. The magazine, he says, is ‘a necessary consequence of their superstar status’. Some home truths about the migration of people need to be remembered and the necessary consequences drawn. But biodiversity is a necessary precondition for the long-term maintenance of biological resources. How can one responsibly teach writers who use the reader's revulsion and horror as necessary responses? It was an almost necessary consequence of using lenses. Perhaps you may think that in this case the continuation of such stringent and draconian sanctions is a regrettable but necessary consequence. Synonyms inevitable, unavoidable, certain, sure, inescapable, inexorable, ineluctable, fated, destined, predetermined, predestined, preordained 2.1Philosophy (of a concept, statement, judgment, etc.) inevitably resulting from or produced by the nature of things, so that the contrary is impossible. 〔哲〕（观念、陈述或判断等）具有必然性的 Example sentencesExamples There could be no solution, they claimed, until the mind first grasped the necessary idea. The phenomenon of decadence is as necessary as any increase and advance of life: one is in no position to abolish it. Bacon and Locke had discussed the question of a necessary knowledge of nature from a scholastic standpoint. If it is shown that the opinion actually formed is not an opinion of this character, then the necessary opinion does not exist. We ought not to be surprised when Hamlet refers to some necessary question of the play. 2.2Philosophy (of an agent) having no independent volition. 〔哲〕（行为者）迫不得已的，非做不行的，非自愿的 Example sentencesExamples The sixth is that if a man were not a necessary agent he would be ignorant of morality and have no motive to practice it. nounˈnesəˌserēˈnɛsəˌsɛri usually necessaries 1The basic requirements of life, such as food and warmth. 生活必需品 Example sentencesExamples I shall have to use a jar of pre-made sauce for that because I'm not geared up with necessaries for sauce making yet. Taxes on luxuries have some advantage over taxes on necessaries. There wasn't time for a full shop so I confined myself to the small list of necessaries I'd scribbled down. At the time of writing his Wealth of Nations, Smith noted that only four necessaries were subject to tax in Great Britain, specifically salt, leather, soap and candles. The ward nurse gave me a list of necessaries, beginning with soap and ending with a bedpan. This was the principal site for retailing victuals and other necessaries. Two or three trips out for provisions and necessaries for the immediate works have given us our first close-hand contact with the beautiful landscape. And a big plus is that it's not too trendy to supply the necessaries for making coffee and tea. However, my CD drive is broken, and I specifically checked when I ordered that it would be possible to download the necessaries from the internet. After about another hour of going through information, records, and other such necessaries, we finally were ready to leave, or so I thought. Others resort to exploitation, as in the case of an injured officer who, with the help of a resentful assistant, attempts to trade tobacco leaves with the retreating soldiers in exchange for food and other necessaries. Lots of worthwhile things got done today, domestic things, keeping the small ship of our household trim and balanced, clean and supplied with the necessaries. To their credit, Pollack and his scriptwriters have tried to tackle all the necessaries of a proper old style political thriller head on. She had spent an hour or so showing the captain the necessaries in caring for his mother, and had promised to stop by the following afternoon, just to check on things. There was some space left over in my trolley when I'd bought the necessaries so I filled it up with Christmas booze. I picked up enough consumables and necessaries to tide us over the next couple of days. He could supply drovers with all necessaries, including the best brands of liquors and fresh water. Work was about to be resumed at the Emergency Kitchen for the relief of the sick poor of York, which was for the immediate relief of all poor persons who were ill, and too poor to afford the pressing necessaries their sufferings required. Bread, margarine, orange juice, jam, fruit and veg, cereals, milk, meat, biscuits and some other necessaries such as kitchen towels, toothpaste, beer and disposable nappies. Shelter, medicine, basic schooling, and even necessaries like food and water were now being provided to the million upon million of starving adults, and their children. And if you look to the bottom of the bag, you'll find your necessaries. But back then florists seemed rather more in touch with the real world and would provide a few bunches of the cheapest blooms you could have for the small change left after shopping for necessaries. 1.1 Small items required for a particular journey or purpose. I hastily threw a few necessaries into a kit bag Example sentencesExamples He wrote, ‘The accepted doctrine is, that capital is anything saved or reserved for the payment of labor not employed in, or devoted to the production of the immediate necessaries of life.’ She took the position that Mark remained a child of the marriage under her charge and unable to withdraw from her charge or obtain the necessaries of life on his own by reason of illness, disability or other cause. In the Cariboo mining camps ‘train after train was coming in laden not with the necessaries of life, to keep poor men from starvation, but with whiskey, and Billiard Tables’ The woman and her husband pleaded guilty in January to forcible confinement, assault with a weapon, and failure to provide the necessaries of life. It depends on the ability and willingness of each person applying for custody of the child to provide the child with guidance and education, the necessaries of life and any special needs. They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants. In the short term, the mother, because she is gainfully employed and will likely remain so, is better able to provide Michael with the material necessaries of life. On the other hand, the poor law unions had a legal obligation to ensure that nobody died of starvation, malnutrition, or ‘the want of the necessaries of life.’ I was persuaded on the evidence that both parents were equally able and willing to provide the children with the guidance, education, and necessaries of life to meet the needs of the children. Thirdly, what is the ability and willingness of each party to provide guidance and education, the necessaries of life and special needs for Christien? Phrases a necessary evil Something that is undesirable but must be accepted. 不想要但又必须接受的事物 Example sentencesExamples So in that sense, I agree that litigation can be a necessary evil. To others, myself included, cleaning a dirty weapon is a necessary evil. Many investors say they care less for animal than human lives, taking the view that animal testing is a necessary evil if medical developments are to progress. Forest fires are a necessary evil, argue scientists and government officials. Despite this, the daily commute is considered by most to be a necessary evil to be tolerated in order to call a place your own. They seem to see sprawl as a problem to be eliminated, not a necessary evil to be mitigated. If this was making inroads into the problem then many Americans would reluctantly accept this as a necessary evil. State and local officials have come to view tax breaks and ‘incentives’ as a necessary evil. Animal testing is a necessary evil which will exist for many years to come. We seem to accept death on the road as a necessary evil. So capitalism is indeed a necessary evil, and has been around ever since the beginning of human nature? They are seen as a necessary evil to promote stability and foreign investment in the region. I tried hating school, but I decided long ago that education was a necessary evil. I can think of 1,000 things I would rather do with my time, but it's a necessary evil. The department of sericulture, on the other hand, had accepted the problem of children working in silk factories as a necessary evil. But we are prepared to tolerate these noises as being a necessary evil. In fact they enter the course regarding cryptography as a necessary evil that must be endured in order for them to obtain an Information Security qualification. They do not enhance the appearance of the district in which they are situated but are coming to be regarded as a necessary evil. Speed cameras - a necessary evil or just a way of bringing money in? But if lights are occasionally necessary, they are a necessary evil. We see some of these salaries as a necessary evil in order to attract good people to run our establishments! Origin Late Middle English: from Latin necessarius, from necesse ‘be needful’. adj.1 phr.
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