needful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 必要的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if Karenin had not got his brother- in-law this berth, then through a hundred other personages-- brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, and aunts--Stiva Oblonsky would have received this post, or some other similar one, together with the salary of six thousand absolutely needful for them, as his affairs, in spite of his wife's considerable property, were in an embarrassed condition.
-- He could not go to bed, feeling that it was absolutely needful for him first to think thoroughly over the position that had just arisen.
-- This trick, a bad habit, the cracking of his fingers, always soothed him, and gave precision to his thoughts, so needful to him at this juncture.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pickerbaugh looked as though that was not exactly the right response, but he recovered and caroled on: "I said to them, 'Gentlemen, I must warn you that I am not sure I possess the rare qualifications needful in a man who shall have the high privilege of laying down, at Washington, the rules and regulations for the guidance, in every walk of life, of this great nation of a hundred million people.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She insisted on doing her share of the offices needful to the sick.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thatperhaps it was a little indecent that the principal registrar of all,whose duty it was to find the public, constantly resorting to thisplace, all needful accommodation, should be an enormoussinecurist in virtue of that post (and might be, besides, aclergyman, a pluralist, the holder of a stall in a cathedral, and whatnot), while the public was put to the inconvenience of which wehad a specimen every afternoon when the office was busy, andwhich we knew to be quite monstrous.
-- 754I have now recalled all that I think it needful to recall here, of thisterm of absence- with one reservation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With all these personal advantages (to which may be added a strong savour of tobacco-smoke, and a prevailing greasiness of appearance) Mr Swiveller leant back in his chair with his eyes fixed on the ceiling, and occasionally pitching his voice to the needful key, obliged the company with a few bars of an intensely dismal air, and then, in the middle of a note, relapsed into his former silence.
-- The dwarf's lodging on Tower hill comprised, besides the needful accommodation for himself and Mrs Quilp, a small sleeping-closet for that lady's mother, who resided with the couple and waged perpetual war with Daniel; of whom, notwithstanding, she stood in no slight dread.
-- Their owners had evidently come to that spot to make some needful repairs in the stage arrangements, for one of them was engaged in binding together a small gallows with thread, while the other was intent upon fixing a new black wig, with the aid of a small hammer and some tacks, upon the head of the radical neighbour, who had been beaten bald.
-- Mr Codlin sat smiling in the chimney-corner, eyeing the landlord as with a roguish look he held the cover in his hand, and, feigning that his doing so was needful to the welfare of the cookery, suffered the delightful steam to tickle the nostrils of his guest.
-- The proposed expedition being one of paramount importance, Mrs Jarley adjusted Nell's bonnet with her own hands, and declaring that she certainly did look very pretty, and reflected credit on the establishment, dismissed her with many commendations, and certain needful directions as to the turnings on the right which she was to take, and the turnings on the left which she was to avoid.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Torres Straits are nearly thirty-four leagues wide; but they are obstructed by an innumerable quantity of islands, islets, breakers, and rocks, that make its navigation almost impracticable; so that Captain Nemo took all needful precautions to cross them.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was needful to economise severely, to make possible the great alterations he must introduce.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Catherine reflected an instant, with knitted brows she found it needful to smooth the way for an intrusion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Sparsit recognized the hand, intimated that such confirmation was quite unnecessary, and gave Mr. Bounderby's address, with all needful clues and directions in aid.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dove then turned up his coat-collar, and put on his cocked hat; and, having exchanged a long and affectionate embrace with his future partner, once again braved the cold wind of the night: merely pausing, for a few minutes, in the male paupers' ward, to abuse them a little, with the view of satisfying himself that he could fill the office of workhouse-master with needful acerbity.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the only voyage which I may say was success-ful in all my adventures, which I owe to the integrity and honesty of my friend the captain; under whom also I got a competent knowledge of the mathematics and the rules of navigation, learned how to keep an account of the ship's course, take an observation, and, in short, to understand some things that were needful to be understood by a sailor; for, as he took delight to instruct me, I took delight to learn; and, in a word, this voyage made me both a sailor and a merchant; for I brought home five pounds nine ounces of gold-dust for my adventure, which yielded me in London, at my return, almost 300 pounds; and this filled me with those aspiring thoughts which have since so completed my ruin.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some time she spent in wandering up and down, thinking to encounter the buildings by chance, so readily is the mind, bent upon prosecuting a hard but needful errand, eased by that self-deception which the semblance of search, without the reality, gives.
-- He could only think of how needful it was to make the train and get quietly away.
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