Imperative

(noun.) some duty that is essential and urgent.

(adj.) requiring attention or action; 'as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative'; 'requests that grew more and more imperative' .

(adj.) relating to verbs in the imperative mood .

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• The movements of the enemy may justify, or even make it your imperative duty, to cut loose from your base, and strike for the interior to aid Sherman. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The need for labour upon the plantations of the West Indies and the south was imperative. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• For if it were, its claims would be incomparable, imperative. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• This imperative hint disturbed George a good deal. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It seems to have been a fashion with constitution planners in the eighteenth century rather than a reasonable imperative. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They may possibly clash with more imperative considerations. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Two or three times, the matter in hand became so knotty, that the jackal found it imperative on him to get up, and steep his towels anew. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• For safe and expeditious operation of trains, where the schedule is only one and one-half minutes, it was imperative that grade crossings should be avoided. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I beg your parding, young man,' demanded Mrs. Raddle, in a louder and more imperative tone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• This ill-timed defiance might have procured for De Bracy a volley of arrows, but for the hasty and imperative interference of the outlaw Chief. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Dorset, as if in obedience to Lily's imperative bidding, had actually returned in time for a late dinner on the yacht. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• He saw that the rules of the service were imperative. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Custom must bow to imperative necessity, they thought; and they decided that, blood feud or no blood feud, Muhammad must die. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Prompt action on our part was imperative. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Come, said the officer who was guarding me back to Shador; my orders are imperative; there is to be no delay. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• A new age was beginning with new and greater imperatives, and these nineteenth-century statesmen were but pretending to control events. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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