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needy

/nee-dee/US // ˈni di //UK // (ˈniːdɪ) //

贫乏的,贫苦,贫乏,贫困

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adj.形容词 adjective
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    need·i·er, need·i·est.

    • : in a condition of need or want; extremely poor and not having the basic necessities: If your car is serviceable, it will be repaired and donated to a needy family.
    • : having or exhibiting an excessive emotional need, as for attention, intimacy, or reassurance: As he became more competent and less needy, his interpersonal relationships improved.
    • : having many needs to be met: Cats aren’t as needy as dogs.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Usually the needy . extremely poor persons collectively: Help the needy.

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Examples

  • In the United States, concerns are highest for the neediest students, those who live in poverty, have special needs and are English Language Learners — but month after month of disrupted education will affect every child.

  • Marshall’s Democratic opponent, Barbara Bollier, 62, a state senator who only recently left the Republican Party, is also a physician and has centered her platform on pandemic response and expanding health care for needy Kansans.

  • So the EV maker has long collected fistfuls of credits and found lots of needy buyers, Honda among them.

  • The department says it could give more money to the neediest neighborhoods and boost nearly funded projects over their last hurdle.

  • In some cases, an elder chick would also offer food to the neediest sibling, which called out incessantly, irrespective of whether it groomed or not.

  • As a way to be more available to needy souls outside the church, Williams took a clerk job at Walgreens pharmacy.

  • The foundation, named after her mother, provides financial help to needy families that are infertile.

  • Fatherless and emotionally needy, du Pont was a loner who sought companionship and adoration—usually at great financial cost.

  • He has close ties with the city political establishment and serves more than 200 needy families a week through his food bank.

  • The officers—led by a woman named Dawn Lerner—provide food and shelter at the hospital for needy people they find on the road.

  • A very few weeks flew over the head of the needy man, before he was reduced to the same pitiable straits.

  • The needy and the poor seek for waters, and there are none: their tongue hath been dry with thirst.

  • An assistant in the benevolent work of Mme. de la Chanterie, he visited the needy sick whom she pointed out.

  • By 1775, there were nine free schools endowed by private philanthropists for the poor and needy.

  • They all evinced a strong religious character, but in addition had a care for the old and needy.