en·tail
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/ |
- to involve something that cannot be avoided
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
- …
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 The job entails a lot of hard work.