entail
verbto involve something that cannot be avoided synonym involve牵涉;需要;使必要 - entail something
The job entails a lot of hard work. 这工作需要十分艰苦的努力。 What does the job actually entail? 这项工作实际包括什么? - be entailed in something
The girls learn exactly what is entailed in caring for a newborn baby. 姑娘们学的是怎样照看新生儿。 - entail (somebody) doing something
It will entail driving a long distance every day. 这意味着每天都要长途开车。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- actually
- inevitably
- necessarily
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Word Originlate Middle English (referring to settlement of property; formerly also as intail): from en-, in- ‘into’ + Old French taille ‘notch, tax’, from taillier ‘to cut’, based on Latin talea ‘twig, cutting’.- entail something