同义词
反义词
  • n.
    want的反义词之:缺乏;需要
    plenty
同义词解析
  • 以下这些动词都有"希望" 的意思
    desire语气较正式庄重,着重渴望的力量与热切,常含有强烈的意图和目的。
    wish语气较弱,多指难于实现或不可能实现的愿望。
    hope指对愿望实现有一定信心的希望。
    expect通常指有很大程度的把握,但仍含有预料之意,或预计某事或某行动的发生。
    want一般指所想要的东西是切望得到的东西,能弥补实际需要。
    long语气强,指极殷切地盼望着,这种盼望侧重于很难或不可能得到的东西。有时也指一般愿望,但含一定感情色彩。
  • 以下这些动词均有"缺少,短少" 的意思
    lack指完全短缺或数量不足。
    need语气较重,指需要必不可少的东西,强调急需。
    want侧重缺少某种必需之物,或个人渴望得到的东西。
    require使用广泛,语气较轻。强调急需时可与need换用,但有时暗示所需的人或物是完成某一任务必不可少的。
  • 以下这些名词均包含 "缺乏,不足" 的意思
    lack普通用词,指部分或完全的不足。
    want指完全或短缺某物,侧重缺少之物是必需的东西。使用范围比lack窄些。
    absence指某物根本不存在或完全短缺,或某人虽存在,但未到现场。
    shortage指不足,但侧重达不到规定的,需要的或已知应有的数量。
    scarcity指产量不足或缺乏某物难以应付或满足需要。
词组
  • for want of
    because of a lack of (something) 因为缺乏
  • want in &I{【俚语】}
    To desire greatly to enter 想要进去:极其渴望进入 To wish to join a project, business, or other undertaking. 需要:希望加入某项工程、业务或其它事情
  • want out &I{【俚语】}
    To desire greatly to leave 想要出去:极其渴望离开 To wish to leave a project, a business, or other undertaking. 想要出去:希望离开某项工程、业务或其他事情
英语四级真题
  • I'm not happy and I want to change and I'm done with this.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • I was thinking, ‘OK, guys, if you want to try to shut me down, shut me down.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Creating the future you want is a lot easier if you are ready to exploit the opportunities that come your way.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • You would want that robot preloaded with a good set of values, said Russell.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The more recent steep climb in grain prices partly results from the fact that more and more people want to consume meat products.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume -72- highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion ( ' , 转向) of U.S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Of course, sons and daughters want to visit the facilities, talk to the administrators and residents and other families, and do everything possible to fulfill their duties.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Not everyone wants a driverless car now—and no one can get one yet—but among those who are open to them, every age group is similarly engaged.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areasWhile there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • In agrarian ( ' , 农业的 ), pre-industrial Europe, you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work, says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • In a study last year, of all people surveyed, 48 percent said they wanted to ride in one, while 50 percent did notThe fact that attitudes toward self-driving cars appear to be so steady across generations suggests how transformative the shift to driverless cars could be.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • For example, if a robot does chores around the house, you wouldn't want it to put the pet cat in the oven to make dinner for the hungry children.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • But the new paper suggests that if you want long life, you should strive to be as outgoing as possible.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Stan Glantz, a professor of medicine in San Francisco,explains why: And you know, one thing that I wanted to ask you.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • So if you really want to do your job well, don’t forget to get some sleep.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • I don’t know about perfecting but they want at least to be able to communicate decently.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • And following up on what you just mentioned, what would you recommend  for students who do not live in an English-speaking country? And you know, they want to learn.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • They want to preserve a wonderful tradition of the industry.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • For comparison, let's say you wanted to jam a conversation between two people—all you'd need to do is yell in the listener's ear.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • We want to  be self-sufficient.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • We do not want taxpayer money.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • Today’s consumers want beautiful handcrafted objects to wear and to have for their home environment.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • To make learning effective, educators have to ensure that children want to learn.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • They want to go to bed on regular hours.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • They want to get sufficient sleep.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • The microwave and fast-food chains were the biggest catalysts ( ' , 催化剂 ), but the big food companies—which want to sell anything except the raw ingredients that go into cooking—made the home cook an endangered species.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Shouldn't preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans? Why would we want to outsource ( ' , 外包 ) this basic task, especially when outsourcing it is so harmful? When I talk about cooking, I'm not talking about creating elaborate dinner parties or three-day science projects.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Rich people don't want to live in Pittsburgh or Ithaca.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • On the other hand, task-timers have a list of things they want to accomplish.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Decades of research have shown that in order to acquire skills and real knowledge in school, kids need to want to learn.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Can't we stay here for just a minute? I want to find out what he does with all those legs.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Ask yourself, Would Grandma consider this food? Does it look like something that might occur in nature? It's pretty much common sense: you want to buy food, not unidentifiable foodlike objects.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • "Women want to be able to do it all—volunteer for school parties or cook delicious meals—and so their answer to any request is often "Yes,I can."
    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • "You would want that robot preloaded with a good set of values," said Russell.
    2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • "You'll want an iPad just so you can wear this " is the slogan for one of the new lab coats designed with large pockets to accommodate tablet computers.
    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • At the workplace, men use conflict as a way to position themselves, while women often avoid conflict or strive to be the peacemaker,because they don't want to be viewed as aggressive or disruptive at work.
    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Being overworked or over-committed at home and on the job will not get you where you want to be in life.
    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Certainly, you don't want to waste your precious hours on following the developments in a disorderly fashion, and miss important deadlines, confuse interview times or forget to follow up as a result.
    2018年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Contrary to popular belief, older people generally do not want to live with their children.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • first of all, choose how personal you want to be.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • He quotes Google co-founder Larry Page to the effect that the perfect search engine will understand exactly what I mean and give me back exactly what I want.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • I am not sure I want to change rules, but I'd like the police to be stricter on the roads.
    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • I do want to get married, but she thinks we need to wait until we've launched our careers.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • I just want to ask them one question, so it's much easier for me just to text message.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • I really want to lose some of these belly fat and turn it into muscle, but I'm not sure which of the gym equipment would best help.
    2018年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • I really want to push harder and progress further.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • I want my students to search out the answers to questions by using all the resources available to them.
    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • I want to make sure that older adults are still able to enjoy their old age, and that they're not spending time in hospital with infections, feeling unwell and being generally weak.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • If anything does go wrong while they're in the house, they don 't want to be blamed for it.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • In agrarian, pre-industrial Europe, "you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work," says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.
    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • It's pretty much common sense: you want to buy food, not unidentifiable foodlike objects.
    2015年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • James said that waves in the San Francisco Bay hitting him in the face 30 minutes into his swim made him want to give up.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • Lawmakers in Michigan clearly want to make the state ready for the commercial application of self-driving technology.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • Mike Ellicock,chief executive of National Numeracy said we want to challenge this "I can't do maths" attitude that is prevalent in the UK, adding that it was vital that all primary school teachers understand key maths concepts as young children who fail t
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • My parents want me to get the degree, but my advisor thinks it's time for me to get more work experience.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • Now we also want some drawing pens, ink and rulers, and some drawing paper.
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • Of course, consumers also want their orders prepared correctly and on that score, Oches says, accuracy is still really high.
    2018年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • rich people don't want to live in Pittsburgh or Ithaca.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • She doesn't want to use her name for fear of being fired from her job.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • So do you want the drawing board then?
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • So if you really want to do your job well, don't forget to get some sleep.
    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • Sometimes I don't really want to talk to the person.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • The microwave and fast-food chains were the biggest catalysts, but the big food companies—which want to sell anything except the raw ingredients that go into cooking—made the home cook an endangered species.
    2015年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • There's as much listening exposure as I want.
    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • They could be sold, but we want to save them for future years.
    2016年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • They want to know how space research helps people on Earth.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • They want to see what the effects will be.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • They want to see what's underneath.
    2016年12月四级真题(第二套)听力
  • We are unsure of ourselves and we want to be liked by everyone.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • We really want to link food and medicine, and not just give away food.
    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • We want people to be healthy, even when they are old.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • We want to persuade males to think about career options of going into nursing.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • We wanted to give people an opportunity to actually see the calories before they purchase the food and make a decision, an informed decision that if they want to make a healthier choice, if they want to eat fewer calories, they can.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
英语六级真题
  • We want to reach parents who are not plugged into the system, said Zaharopol.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives, said Loh.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Do all parents want the most success for their children? Absolutely, she said.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Co-author Amy Zanne thinks that users probably range from climate-change researchers wanting to estimate how much carbon is stored in biomass, to foresters looking for information on different grades of timber.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • American parents want similar things for their children, the Pew report and past research have found: for them to be healthy and happy, honest and ethical, caring and compassionate.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • She replied: I don’t want to look too inexperienced.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • I don’t want them to suspect this is my first trial.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • I asked what impression she wanted to make on the jury.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • The one in the House bill would have to negotiate rates with providers, rather than using Medicare rates, as many reformers wanted.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • That was as it should be: kitchens were for servants, and the aspiring middle classes wanted nothing to do with them.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Some young people like to keep something to themselves and don't want their parents to know about it.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • No average person wants to figure out whether their favorite calendar software works with their fridge or whether their washing machine and tablet get along.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • And it is clearly up to the current generation of leaders from high-emitting nations to decide whether they want to be remembered as climate change tyrants or pioneers.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • One reason any campaign wants a popular celebrity spokesperson is because kids are attracted to them no matter what they are doing.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • One day, I was invited to an important event, and I wanted to wear something special for it.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • And I want to look at these both from a financial and from a personnel point of view and to offer a few hopefully effective solutions.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • Rather than merely asking about something they wanted to try, they tended to include both cause and effect in their question.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • If you want to change his course, you have only a few choices: you can stop him, transferring ( ' , possibly painfully) some of his kinetic energy ( ' , 动能 ) to your own body, or you can approach alongside and slowly apply pressure to gradually alter his course.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • I wanted to go to college but I didn't really know the process.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • "I'm going to leave it to those who are in mathematics to work out the ways to make their subject interesting and exciting so students want to take it," Hacker says.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • "I'm going to leave it to those who are in mathematics to work out the ways to make their subject interesting and exciting so students want to take it," Hacker says. "All that I ask is that alternatives be offered instead of putting all of us on the road
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • "It's been hard not to share pictures of her because people always want to know how babies and toddler (学走路的孩子) are doing and to see pictures, but we made the decision to have social media while she did not," O'Hanlon said.
    2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • "middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives," said Loh.
    2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • "We want to improve the quality of animal health and make it easier for farmers to maintain large landscapes where animals roam free," says Sukkarieh.
    2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • "We want to reach parents who are not plugged into the system," said Zaharopol.
    2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • "What we find is you actually look at the world slightly differently, because you're looking for things you want to capture, that you may want to hang onto," Dehl explains. "That gets people more engaged in the experience, and they tend to enjoy it more."
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • And about 200 to 215 million women don't have access to birth control they want, so that they can't control their own fertility.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • And these big food corporations have so much money to spend on clever tactic design to make young children want to buy their products.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • And this time she said: "I want to look professional and self-assured."
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • Biologist Jill Farrant of the University of Cape Town in South Africa says that nature has plenty of answers for people who want to grow crops in places with unpredictable rainfall.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Consequently, before going into any stressful situation, focus only on what you want to have happened.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • Do all parents want the most success for their children?
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Here we have three of the most important problems facing small businesses that I want to look at today.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • I also do not want anything too expensive, Maybe mid-range.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • I don't want them to suspect this is my first trial.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • I want to be on time for a change.
    2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • I want to photograph the disaster waiting to happen.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • I want to tell you about the past, present and future of the human population.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • If I want to continue ahead with this dream of only my own business, I have no other choice.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • If we want to fix the problem of the income gap, first we have to understand it.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • If you really want to build resilience, you can start by strategically stopping.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • If you want something to be done, then their staff do not have so much incentive to help you because he's a worker for the government.
    2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • If you want to change his course, you have only a few choices: you can stop him, transferring possibly painfullysome of his kinetic energy to your own body, or toucan approach alongside and slowly apply pressure to gradually alter his course.
    2015年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • If you want to take mental photos, that works the same way,'' Dehl says.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • It has artworks that any museum in the world would want to collect, paintings by many world-famous artists like Monet and picasso.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • It is not only polite, it is essential if we want to sell British products overseas.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • It's also your choice if you want to go out at night, but you will be foolish to let that affect your class performance during the day.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • Lending is the coal to our engine, so we want to make more loans.
    2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Now, I don't want to be misunderstood.
    2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Now, we don't want to leave you with the impression that these three components always work together perfectly.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • Of course you're going to want to work harder and put the time and effort into it.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • People can shop more efficiently online and therefore don't need to go to as many stores to find what they want.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • People look longer at things they want to photograph, Dehl says.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • She replied: "I don't want to look too inexperienced."
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • She says she is aware that plenty of people do not want to eat genetically modified crops, but she is pushing ahead with every available tool until one works.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Still, if late sleepers want to lose a few pounds, they can go to bed earlier than they usually do, thereby reducing their chances of taking snacks before bedtime.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力  Section B 
  • The market for products designed specifically for older adults could reach $30 billion by next year, and startups want in on the action.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • There is another reason why I want to chat with you before Monday.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • They want to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the garbage dump.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Thinking about what you would want to photograph also gets you more engaged.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Today, I want to discuss with you a new approach to empirical research.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Ultimately, that's the thing universities don't want to admit.
    2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • We also do less tangible things like understanding what our readers want.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • We want to lead the way in restoring the health of the ocean for future generations.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • What we find is you actually look at the world slightly differently, because you're looking for things you want to capture, that you may want to hang onto, Dehl explains.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • When customers do want to toss their pair, they can give them back to the store, which will repurpose and resell them.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • When we're too collaborative, we want everyone to agree with a decision before we proceed.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • While we didn't want to create any unnecessary panic, we did find some concerns that were troublesome, and we thought that parents or at least physicians should be aware of those potential risks.
    2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • You know, forecasting's become a very hazardous business so I don't want to commit myself too much.
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  • You wrote in the book: "I don't want to photograph the disaster."
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
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  • Noun
    1. a state of extreme poverty
    2. the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable;
    "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem""water is the critical deficiency in desert regions""for want of a nail the shoe was lost"
    3. anything that is necessary but lacking;
    "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs""I tried to supply his wants"
    4. a specific feeling of desire;
    "he got his wish""he was above all wishing and desire"
  • Verb
    1. feel or have a desire for; want strongly;
    "I want to go home now""I want my own room"
    2. have need of;
    "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
    3. wish or demand the presence of;
    "I want you here at noon!"
    4. hunt or look for; want for a particular reason;
    "Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI""Uncle Sam wants you"
    5. be without, lack; be deficient in;
    "want courtesy""want the strength to go on living""flood victims wanting food and shelter"