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necessity /nəˈsesəti/► SEE ALLnecessity is the mother of inventionmake a virtue of necessity
●neˌcessity is the ˌmother of inˈvention (saying) a very difficult new problem forces people to think of, design, produce, etc. a solution to it 需要是发明之母◆‘So how did you manage to open the bottle?’ ‘I used a bit of wire and a stick. Necessity is the mother of invention, as the saying goes.’
“你怎么打开那个瓶子的？”“我用了一小截金属线和一根小棍。俗话说，需要是发明之母。”●make a ˌvirtue of neˈcessityact in a good or moral way, and perhaps expect praise for this, not because you chose to but because in that particular situation you had no choice 不得已而做善事；做不得不做的好事却假装高尚 |