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entail

verb
🔊/ɪnˈteɪl/
🔊/ɪnˈteɪl/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they entail
🔊/ɪnˈteɪl/
🔊/ɪnˈteɪl/
he / she / it entails
🔊/ɪnˈteɪlz/
🔊/ɪnˈteɪlz/
past simple entailed
🔊/ɪnˈteɪld/
🔊/ɪnˈteɪld/
past participle entailed
🔊/ɪnˈteɪld/
🔊/ɪnˈteɪld/
-ing form entailing
🔊/ɪnˈteɪlɪŋ/
🔊/ɪnˈteɪlɪŋ/
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  1. to involve something that cannot be avoided牵涉；需要；使必要 synonym involve
    • 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’.