want vt. 1.(想)要,想望;想得到。 2.需要,必要;必須。 3.征求;征聘;通緝。 4.缺少,沒有;不夠,差欠。 I want you to come. (= 〔俚語〕 I want for you to come. 或 I want (that) you should come ). 我希望你來。 What do you want with me 你找我有什么事? You're wanted. 有人找你。 You won't be wanted this afternoon. 今天下午沒事需要你做。 the wanted man 被通緝的人。 You don't want to be rude. 你不必粗暴。 a typist wanted 征聘打字員。 Situation wanted by a typist. 打字員求職。 It wants 3 inches of 6 feet. 六英尺差三英寸。 It wants something of perfection. 還有一點不完滿的地方。 vi. 1.缺少,沒有;不夠,差 (in)。 2.生活困難,窮困。 want in stature 身長不夠。 Let him want for nothing. 不要讓他短缺什么東西〔生活上有什么匱乏〕。 want in [out, off] 〔口、方〕想要進來[出去] (The cat wants in. 那只貓想進來)。 want to 〔口語〕應該 ( You want to eat a balanced diet. 你應該吃營養均衡的食物)。 n. 1.缺乏,不足;需要。 2.匱乏,窮困,貧窮。 3.欲求;〔主 pl. 〕 想要的東西,必需品。 know the bitterness of want 知道貧窮的苦處。 a man of few wants 欲求少的人。 for want of 因缺少…。 in want 貧窮。 in want of 需要…(的),缺少…(的)。 adj. -able 稱心的,有吸引力的。 n. -age 缺少(量)。 n. -er 1.缺乏者;貧乏者。 2.〔方言〕求偶者。 adj. -less 無欲求的。
A rich person is seldom in want of a friend . 富在深山有遠親。
As a country which has wherewithal to buy tobacco will never be long in want of it . 有資力購買煙草的國家,決不會長久缺乏煙草。
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife . 凡是有錢的單身漢總想娶位太太,這已經成了一條舉世公認的真理。
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife . 有一個事實是大家普遍公認的-一個擁有可觀財產的單身漢,必然可望要一個妻子。
He is understood to be in want of witnesses, for the inquest tomorrow, who can tell the coroner and jury anything whatever respecting the deceased . 他說,明天驗尸的時候需要一些證人,向驗尸官和陪審委員團報告死者的情況。
The poor woman was in want of food and clothes 這個貧困的婦女缺少衣食。
I ' m in want of a decent salary to pay all my bills 我需要一份優厚的薪水付我所有的帳單。
She is poor and in want of basic things 她貧困,缺少生活必需品。
He might certainly have a lot of patients in want of seeing him 我從小的時候就知道努力學習各種本領。
The house was damaged in the storm and it was in want of repair 這座房子在風暴中被破壞了,需要修理一下