necessarily

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1 not necessarily POSSIBLEpossibly, but not certainly 不一定

That is not necessarily true.

那未必是真的。

Expensive restaurants aren’t necessarily the best.

昂贵的餐馆不一定是最好的。

Having this disease does not necessarily mean that you will die young.

患上此病不一定就会早逝。

‘So the school will have to close down, then?’ ‘Not necessarily.’

“那么这所学校得关闭了？”“也不一定。”

Examples from the Corpus

not necessarily• "Are women getting better roles in movies?" "Not necessarily."• But no I hadn't, not necessarily.• But even if the court rules that there is no such federal right, it would not necessarily affect the Oregon law.• Does he accept that some people prefer to prepare for international emergencies and not necessarily be involved in the local scene?• Bigger is not necessarily better.• Chapters, not necessarily in this order, on: Agriculture, forests and fisheries.• Country Jacobitism and legitimism were not necessarily incompatible.• Neural networks can produce very good answers, though not necessarily optimum solutions, in remarkably short times.• Recollections of past events do not necessarily shape policy, but they certainly influence the thinking of the individual who shapes policy.• Other facets of self-esteem may be poor, but are not necessarily so.• That is not necessarily true.

2 MUST formal in a way that cannot be different or be avoided 必然，必定 SYN inevitably

The care of old people necessarily involves quite a lot of heavy lifting.

照顾老年人必定要干很多搬重物的活儿。

Examples from the Corpus

necessarily• He is not necessarily a typical patronage worker, but he is not unusual.• Education must necessarily be about skill acquisition and content learning as well as development.• Income tax laws are necessarily complicated.• The first aspect of the accrual concept states that revenue earned does not necessarily correspond to the receipt of cash.• The arguments advanced by methodological individualists do not necessarily escape these problems.• The historical lack of fiscal discipline will not necessarily improve simply because the goal has been locked into the Constitution.• That doesn't necessarily mean playing him as one of the two central midfielders.• The course wasn't necessarily seen as all that important at first - it got fitted in.• These crafts are not necessarily the monopoly of any one group of animals.

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