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inevitable / certain / necessity
HSK 3
to provide for / to keep (animals, a family etc) / to raise animals / to feed and clothe / support / the necessities of life / to give birth
HSK 7-9
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to require / to need / to want / necessity / need
HSK 7-9
lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt (idiom) / fig. life's daily necessities
lit. firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea / fig. life's daily necessities
necessity / essential (thing)
life's necessities
not having to worry about clothes and food (idiom) / to be provided with the basic necessities
Necessity is the mother of invention (European proverb).
lit. oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar (idiom) / fig. life's daily necessities
basic necessity / fundamental need
to possess nothing except bare necessities / to live a poor or frugal life
(Tw) (abbr. for 教育與娛樂|教育与娱乐) education and entertainment, the 5th and 6th aspects of life beyond the four basic necessities of food, clothing, shelter and transportation 食衣住行 / (sometimes used to signify edutainment or just recreation)
realm of necessity (philosophy)
necessity
(idiom) to possess nothing except bare necessities; to live a frugal life
(literary) things other than the bare necessities of life / item of some value / Taiwan pr. [zhang4 wu4]
lit. cloth, silk, beans and grain (idiom) / fig. food and clothing; daily necessities
to prepare necessities (chiefly clothes) for a journey abroad
not having to worry about food and clothes (idiom) / provided with the basic necessities


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