英:[ˈniːdi]
美:[ˈniːdi]
英:[ˈniːdi]
美:[ˈniːdi]
need·y
ni di
比较级:needier或more needy
最高级:neediest或most needy
neediness (n.)
词根:needy
n.neediness 贫穷
"they try to help the needy"
needy student家庭经济困难的学生
约于1300年, neodi, “非常贫穷,贫困”,源自 need(名词)+形容词后缀 -y(2)。荷兰语 noodig,德语 nothig,古诺尔斯语 nauðigr 也有类似的构词方式。早在14世纪即有“需要或渴望更多,不满足”的意义。作为名词的用法始于15世纪初。相关词汇: Needily; neediness。
The first known use of needy was in the 12th century
nefariousadjective
very wicked : evil
needyadjective
being in want : very poor
needy families
marked by want of affection, attention, or emotional support
a tendency to be emotionally needy
1 The first section – what depression looks like on a dark night – inevitably involves plenty of low puns and needy stuff.
2 Dear Amy: I was very disappointed that you neglected to mention the neediest among us — animals — when you recommended several charities in your column.
3 The Duchess seemed to shrink up and look quite frail and needy.
4 It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses.
5 One day, feeling needy, empty, I walked over to her house.
6 I never saw a needier creature in my life.’
7 Entranced, Nora tumbles into a greedy, needy romance with each of them independently.
8 I feel like telling him I’m one of those needy children, so he needs to be giving me some of that money in his kettle.
9 Roman is the neediest of the Roy children, and his insecurity has led him to make some stupid moves.
10 She gave me her smile of infinite kindness and understanding, the smile I had seen her aim at so many other needy souls, and in that moment I hated her.
11 I found her enthusiasm kind of touching, actually—until the afternoon I overheard her talking on the phone to a friend, venting and not have “two needy children to worry about.”
12 And I enjoy Maya Rudolph playing an outsized parody of a needy, demanding talk show host.
13 He asks me for money for needy children.
14 Mr. Shechter, in interviews, has suggested that this signifies that we are all really just emotionally needy beasts, easily controlled.
15 It meant providing medicine in the places that needed it the most, and no place was needier than Haiti.
16 "It's not a victimless crime," Africk said, saying the fraudulent use of aid money hurts a program meant for the truly needy.
17 The old man is actually generous to the needy.
这位平凡的老人对贫穷的人很慷慨.
18 Cars are needy.
汽车总是需要维修。
19 “Please, I insist, it’s always a pleasure to help the needy.”
20 They collected money to help needy children.
他们集资帮助贫穷的孩子.
1 贫困的
poor disadvantaged bankrupt distressed underprivileged indigent needful straitened necessitous deprived destitute hardscrabble impoverished poverty-striken stricken contracted squalid unprivileged starveling
3 不良
5 有障碍的
6 贫困
distressed deprived destitute hardscrabble want poverty distress deprivation privation penury disadvantaged impoverished indigent necessitous hardship impoverish pauperize be poorly off poverty-striken stricken contracted underprivileged squalid necessitousness squalidity squalor unprivileged starveling misease wolf necessity destitution indigence depauperate out at elbow
7 穷困
bad-off impoverished penniless back-alley badly-off poorly need distress misery strait extremity privation destitution illth up against it indigent necessitous low bankrupt narrow circumstances in bad circumstances distressed destitute impoverish
9 贫穷的
poor submerged destitute indigent penurious beggarly impecunious necessitous out at elbow out at the elbow straitened disadvantaged impoverished poverty-stricken badly off hungry unprivileged depressed piss-poor poverty-striken small narrow scrabbly depauperate
10 贫困者
11 缺乏自信的
12 贫穷
poor submerged destitute indigent penurious beggarly impecunious necessitous poorly squalidity beggarliness need want poverty deprivation impoverishment pauperism pauperization poorness squalidness pauperize out at elbow out at the elbow penury indigence disadvantaged impoverished poverty-stricken beggar impoverish badly off hungry unprivileged necessity mean depressed piss-poor poverty-striken small narrow scrabbly depauperate misease misery pauper destitution neediness depauperize ill-being cold purse