【want音标】 英[wɒnt] 美[wɑ:nt]
【单词释义】 want是什么意思：
v.要；想要；希望；打算；需要…在场
n.需要的东西；缺少；贫穷
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] wants [第三人称单数] wants
[单词现在分词] wanting
[单词过去式] wanted
[单词过去分词] wanted
【want形近词/近似词】
plant n.植物；工厂；庄稼 vt.种植；播种；竖立
rant v.咆哮；怒吼；大声抱怨；大声责骂
pant n.喘气，喘息；气喘；喷气声 v.喘气，喘息；气喘；喘着气说
ant n.蚂蚁
vacant adj.空闲的；空的；空缺的
cant n.倾斜；斜面；黑话；言不由衷的话 v. （使某物）倾斜；倾斜；（船）改变方向；讲黑话
【近义词解析】
◇ 需要
demand (v. 需要)：指为成功做成某事而需要某事物，其主语通常为事物，而宾语多为抽象名词。Success demands persistence.
need (v. 需要)：最普通用词，指需要必不可少的东西或需要做某事，强调所需之物或需做之事的重要性。
require (v. 需要)：词义同 need，常可换用，但语气较弱。
want (v. [非正式]需要)：既可指需要某事物，也可指需要某人做某事，常可与 need 换用。Children want/need plenty of sleep.
【单词例句】
◇ Once she gave her a little cap made of red velvet. Because it suited her so well, and she wanted to wear it all the time, she came to be known as Little Red Cap.
一次，奶奶送给小姑娘一顶用丝绒做的小红帽，戴在她的头上正好合适。从此，姑娘再也不愿意戴任何别的帽子，于是大家便叫她“小红帽”。
---- Little Red Cap
◇ All of a sudden the room became bright and a fairy godmother appeared. "Pretty Cinderella why are you crying?" "I want to go to the ball too. But, there's so much to do and I have nothing to wear."
突然，房间变得明亮起来，仙女教母出现了。“漂亮的灰姑娘，你为什么要哭呢?”“我想去参加舞会。但是，我还有很多活儿要做，而且我没有晚礼服。
---- Cinderella
◇ There, it soon revived. The children wanted to play with it.
它这时才渐渐地恢复了知觉。小孩子们都想跟它玩。
---- The Ugly Duckling
◇ The Queen was making a coat for a little child. She said, "I want my child to be white as this cloth, white as the snow. And I shall call her Snow-white."
王后正在为小孩做一件上衣，她说:“我想我的孩子能够像这布一样白，想雪一样白，我要叫她'白雪公主'。”
---- Snow White
◇ THERE was once a butterfly who wished for a bride, and, as may be supposed, he wanted to choose a very pretty one from among the flowers.
一只蝴蝶想要找一个新娘。自然，他想要在群花中找到一位可爱的小恋人。
---- The Butterfly
◇ Wanting to bring some pleasure to her brothers, she picked the twelve flowers, intending to give one to each of them when they were eating.
公主想让哥哥们高兴一下，便摘下了那十二朵花，准备在吃晚饭时送给每位哥哥一朵。
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ "Oh, I will give you anything, dear frog," she replied. "What will you want----my dresses, my pearls and jewels, or my golden crown?"
她回答说：“哦，我会给你任何东西，亲爱的青蛙。你要什么－－我的衣服，珍珠，珠宝还是我金色的王冠呢？”
---- The Frog Prince
◇ "So why do you want to work here?"Eventually this question comes up in every interview. Over the course of the last 30 years, I have been and I continue to ask this question all the time.
“为什么你想来这里工作？”每次面试最终都会谈到这个问题。在过去30年里，我一直在询问求职者这个问题，也将继续问下去。
---- Why do you want to work here?
◇ She wanted to avenge herself for not having been invited, and without greeting anyone or even looking at them she cried out with a loud voice, "In the princess's fifteenth year she shall prick herself with a spindle and fall over dead." And without saying another word she turned around and left the hall.
她对没有被邀请感到非常愤怒，她要对此进行报复，要献上她恶毒的咒语。所以她进来后就大声叫道：“国王的女儿在十五岁时会被一个纺锤弄伤，最后死去。”然后她一言不发地转过身离开了大厅。
---- Little Brier-Rose
◇ When she wanted to dance to the right, the shoes would dance to the left, and when she wanted to dance up the room, the shoes danced back again, down the steps, into the street, and out of the city gate.
但是当她要向右转的时候，鞋子却向左边跳。当她想要向上走的时候，鞋子却要向下跳，要走下楼梯，一直走到街上，走出城门。
---- The Red Shoes