must / necessarily / certainly / (literary) if
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must / to have to
necessary / essential / indispensable / required
need not / does not have to / not necessarily
to need / to require / essential / indispensable
inevitable / certain / necessity
to be bound to / to be sure to
there is no need / why should
not necessarily / maybe not
must / to need to / to be sure to
presumably / probably / in all likelihood / surely
to be certain of victory / to be bound to prevail
inevitably
necessity / essential (thing)
essential
unavoidable / the only (road, entrance etc)
absolutely necessary / indispensable / essential
necessity
needless / unnecessary
to be bound to / undoubtedly will
seize every minute and second (idiom) / not a minute to lose / every moment counts
circumstances require action (idiom) / absolutely necessary / imperative
to grant whatever is asked for / to accede to every plea
see 必不可少[]
(of an academic course) required / compulsory
required course / compulsory course
must / have to
(we) will be very grateful (if ...)
will die for sure / to be a goner
(gaming or wrestling) finishing move / finisher
realm of necessity (philosophy)
inevitable outcome / inescapable consequence
see 必經之路|必经之路[]
(idiom) the road one must follow / the only way
(logic) necessary condition
If three walk together, one of them can teach me sth (Confucius)
lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius) / you have sth to learn from everyone
to attend to everything personally
see 兩虎相爭，必有一傷|两虎相争，必有一伤[]
He who gives no thought to far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Analects). / Smug concentration on the here and now will lead to future sorrow.
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