They tend to forget past unhappy memories and focus on their present needs .
出自-2014年6月聽力原文
Ask the administration or the Republicans or most academics why America needs more manufacturing, and they respond that manufacturing gives birth to innovation, brings down the trade deficit, strengthens the dollar, generates jobs, arms the military and brings about a recovery from recession.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
We have all seen how a computer's use of personal names often fascinates people and needs them to treat the machine as if it were almost human.
出自-2013年6月聽力原文
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VERB
(為做成某事或正常生活)要求有，必須有，需要
If you need something, or need to do something, you cannot successfully achieve what you want or live properly without it.
例句
He desperately needed money...
他迫切需要錢。
These diets provide everything your body needs...
這些飲食提供了你身體需要的所有營養。
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VERB
(表示某一做法對某事物或地方有益)應該，應當，需要
If an object or place needs something doing to it, that action should be done to improve the object or place. If a task needs doing, it should be done to improve a particular situation.
例句
The building needs quite a few repairs.
該建筑有好幾處應該修繕。
...a garden that needs tidying...
應該清整的花園
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N-SING
必要;需要
If there is a need for something, that thing would improve a situation or something cannot happen without it.
例句
Mr Forrest believes there is a need for other similar schools throughout Britain...
福里斯特先生認為全英國都需要有類似的學校。
'I think we should see a specialist.' — 'I don't think there's any need for that.'...
“我想我們應該見見專家。”——“我認為沒有任何必要。”
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MODAL
不必，沒有必要(用于告知或建議)
If you say that someone needn't do something, you are telling them not to do it, or advising or suggesting that they should not do it.
例句
'I'll put the key in the window.' — 'You needn't bother,' he said gruffly...
“我會把鑰匙放在窗戶里。”——“不必麻煩了，”他粗聲說道。
Look, you needn't shout...
嗨，你不必大喊大叫。
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MODAL
(與否定詞連用)不必，沒有必要
If you tell someone that they needn't do something, or that something needn't happen, you are telling them that that thing is not necessary, in order to make them feel better.
例句
You needn't worry...
你不必擔心。
This needn't take long, Simon...
西蒙，這花不了多長時間。
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MODAL
(與否定詞連用)準許不做，可以不做
You use needn't when you are giving someone permission not to do something.
例句
You needn't come again, if you don't want to...
如果你不想來，可以不用再來。
Well, you needn't tell me anything if you don't want to.
好吧，如果你不想告訴我，可以什么也不說。
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MODAL
(與否定詞連用)未必，不一定
If something need not be true, it is not necessarily true or not always true.
例句
What is right for us need not be right for others...
對我們來說是對的東西，對別人來說未必正確。
Freedom need not mean independence.
自由不一定意味著獨立。
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MODAL
(與否定詞連用)本來不必，本來不需要
If someone needn't have done something, it was not necessary or useful for them to do it, although they did it.
例句
She could have made the sandwich herself; her mum needn't have bothered to do anything...
她本來可以自己做三明治的;她媽媽原本不必費心做任何事情。
I was a little nervous when I announced my engagement to Grace, but I needn't have worried...
我宣布和格雷絲訂婚時有點緊張，但我本不必擔心的。
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MODAL
(與否定詞連用)無需說，不必說
You use need in expressions such as I need hardly say and I needn't add to emphasize that the person you are talking to already knows what you are going to say.
例句
I needn't add that if you fail to do as I ask, you will suffer the consequences.
如果你沒按我的要求做的話，后果請自負——這話我就不必再說了吧。
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MODAL
還需要再說嗎;還要我繼續說嗎
You can use need in expressions such as 'Need I say more' and 'Need I go on' when you want to avoid stating an obvious consequence of something you have just said.
例句
Mid-fifties, short black hair, grey moustache, distinctive Russian accent. Need I go on?
五十四五歲，黑色短發，灰色八字胡，明顯的俄國口音，還需要我繼續說嗎？
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PHRASE
貧困的;困難中的
People in need do not have enough of essential things such as money, food, or good health.
例句
The education authorities have to provide for children in need...
教育主管部門得救助貧困兒童。
Remember that when both of you were in need, I was the one who loaned you money.
記住，在你們兩個都有困難的時候，是我借錢給你們的。
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PHRASE
有…的需要;有…的必要
If you are in need of something, you need it or ought to have it.
例句
I was all right but in need of rest...
我沒事，就是需要休息一下。
He was badly in need of a shave...
他早就應該刮一下胡子了。
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PHRASE
需要的話;如有必要(英國英語中亦作 if needs be)
If you say that you will do something, especially an extreme action, if need be, you mean that you will do if it is necessary. In British English, you can also say if needs be .
例句
They will now seek permission to take their case to the House of Lords, and, if need be, to the European Court of Human Rights.
他們現在將爭取獲準將案件呈交上議院審理，并且，如有必要，會上訴到歐洲人權法院。
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PHRASE
沒有必要;不必
You can tell someone that there's no need for them to do something as a way of telling them not to do it or of telling them to stop doing it, for example because it is unnecessary.
例句
There's no need to call a doctor...
沒有必要叫醫生。
There's no need for that kind of language in this magazine...
這份雜志沒必要出現那種語言。
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PHRASE
沒人需要;沒誰需要
You can say 'Who needs something?' as a way of emphasizing that you think that this thing is unnecessary or not useful.
例句
With apologies to my old history teacher, who needs history lessons?...
這話對不住我親愛的歷史老師，不過有誰需要歷史課呢？
Cigarettes, who needs them?
香煙，誰會要呀？