thing
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英 [θɪŋ] 
词形变化
复数:things 同义词
英汉双解
物体object
1. | [c] 东西;物an object whose name you do not use because you do not need to or want to, or because you do not know it |
| Can you pass me that thing over there? 把那边那个东西递给我好吗? |
| She's very fond of sweet things(= sweet foods) . 她非常喜欢吃甜食。 |
| He's just bought one of those exercise things. 他刚买了一副健身器械。 |
| Turn that thing off while I'm talking to you! 我在跟你说话,把那个玩意儿关掉! |
2. | [c] 物件;物品;事物an object that is not alive in the way that people and plants are |
| Don't treat her like that─she's a person, not a thing! 别那样对待她,她是人,不是物件! |
| He's good at making things with his hands. 他善于手工制作物品。 |
| She took no interest in the people and things around her. 她对周围的人和事毫无兴趣。 |
所有物;设备possessions/equipment
3. | [pl] (个人的)用品,衣服;(某种)用具objects, clothing or tools that belong to sb or are used for a particular purpose |
| Shall I help you pack your things? 我帮你打点行装好吗? |
| Bring your swimming things with you. 随身带上游泳用品。 |
| I'll just clear away the breakfast things. 我这就收拾早餐餐具。 |
| Put your things(= coat, etc.) on and let's go. 把你的衣服穿上,咱们就走。 |
任何东西anything
4. | [sing] 任何东西(用于否定句,加强语气)used with negatives to mean ‘anything’ in order to emphasize what you are saying |
| I haven't got a thing to wear! 我没有一件可穿的衣服! |
| There wasn't a thing we could do to help. 没有什么我们能帮得上忙的。 |
| Ignore what he said─it doesn't mean a thing . 别理睬他说的话,他那都是瞎说。 |
事实;事件;情况;行为fact/event/situation/action
5. | [c] 事实;事件;情况;行为;话语;想法a fact, an event, a situation or an action; what sb says or thinks |
| There are a lot of things she doesn't know about me. 我有很多情况她都不了解。 |
| There's another thing I'd like to ask you. 还有一件事我想问你。 |
| A terrible thing happened last night. 昨天夜里发生了一件可怕的事情。 |
| He found the whole thing(= the situation) very boring. 他觉得整件事情非常无聊。 |
| I've got loads of things to do today. 今天我有许多事要做。 |
| The main thing to remember is to switch off the burglar alarm. 最要紧的是记住关掉防盗报警器的开关。 |
| I like camping, climbing and that sort of thing . 我喜欢露营、爬山之类的活动。 |
| She said the first thing that came into her head. 她想到了什么就说什么。 |
| ‘Why did you tell her our secret?’ ‘I did no such thing !’ “你为什么把我们的秘密告诉她?”“我没干过这种事!” |
| Let's forget the whole thing(= everything) . 咱们把所有事情都忘掉吧。 |
6. | [pl] 形势;局面;情况;事态the general situation, as it affects sb |
| Things haven't gone entirely to plan. 事态没有完全按照计划发展。 |
| Hi, Jane! How are things ? 喂,简,近来怎么样? |
| Think things over before you decide. 先把情况考虑周全再作决定。 |
| As things stand at present, he seems certain to win. 据目前情况看,他似乎胜券在握。 |
| All things considered(= considering all the difficulties or problems) , she's done very well. 通盘考虑起来,她干得很好。 |
| Why do you make things so difficult for yourself? 你为什么这样跟自己过不去? |
需要的╱合适的事物what is needed/right
7. | [c][ususing] 需要的东西;适当的东西;合适的东西what is needed or socially acceptable |
| You need something to cheer you up─I know just the thing! 你需要点什么使你高兴起来,我知道什么正合你的需要! |
| to say the right/wrong thing 说得体的╱不得体的话 |
| The best thing to do is to apologize. 道歉方是上策。 |
某种类型的事物things of particular type
8. | [pl] 所有…的事物;凡是…的东西all that can be described in a particular way |
| She loves all things Japanese. 凡是日本的东西她都喜欢。 |
生物creature
9. | [c] 生物;有生命的东西a living creature |
| All living things are composed of cells. 所有的生物都由细胞组成。 |
人;动物person/animal
10. | [c]
(指人或动物,带感情色彩)人,家伙,东西used to talk to or about a person or an animal, to show how you feel about them |
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| You must be starving, you poor things. 你们一定是饿坏了,你们这些可怜的家伙。 |
| The cat's very ill, poor old thing. 这猫病得很厉害,真可怜。 |
英汉解释
n. | 8. 个人所有物,衣饰,服装,随身物品;用具,家具,财产 |
英英解释
例句
The important thing is to identify how you have continued to use your business skills in the time you have been out of the workforce.
最重要的是你需要指出在你没有工作的那段时间,你是如何继续运用你的工作技能的。
The odd thing was that the four of us were still friends, even though Greg and I had this secret.
奇怪的是,尽管格里格和我有了这个小秘密,我们四个人照旧还是朋友。
Censorship usually is considered a negative thing, at least in American society, but of course, it all depends on who you talk to.
审查通常被看作是具有否定意义的事,至少在美国社会是这样。但是毫无疑问,也要看你跟谁在说话。
Here he would be brought before Congress, asked a few questions and then go on doing the same thing as if nothing ever happened.
在这里,他会被带到国会面前,被询问几个问题,然后继续从事同样的勾当,就像什么事情也没发生过一样。
The other evening, I met a woman who mentioned that she did the no 'poo thing, and we had a fun little bonding moment over it.
某个晚上,我遇到了一个女子,她说她用的是那种无“波”的东西,我们那时聊得很欢。
Almost the only thing a Catholic (or even the spouse of a Catholic) cannot be, by British law, is king or queen.
可以说,依照英国法律,一个天主教徒(或其配偶)唯一不能做的,就是成为国王或女王了。
The last thing the vendors want is to see their (crazy money making) babies turned into commodity software again.
供应商最不愿意的就是再次看到他们的(猛挣钱的)孩子转变成日常应用普通的软件。
Virtually no one suggested in print that unification had been a bad thing.
实际上没有人白纸黑字地表明,统一是一件坏事。
You can't seem to forget that bad thing that happened to you. . . . three doors down, someone has forgotten the names of her children.
你似乎无法将发生在你身上不幸的记忆忘却,三扇门后,某人却无法记起她孩子的名字。
We'll throw these letters in the fire, and you must promise to forget the whole thing. There is no question of your marrying Dora!
你们俩都太年轻!我们会把这些信件烧掉,你必须保证忘掉这整件事。你不可能娶朵拉!
It is awfully EASY to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is? ? another thing.
在白天对什么都不动感情是极为容易的,但在夜晚就是另外一回事。
Don't take this as a bad thing, instead enjoy the company of the people around you and refrain from pushing intimacy.
或许,你可以多留意周围公司里的同事,但不要在短期内有亲密举动。
They all said the same thing: he took no notice of you if you left him alone, but he might charge if you went too close to him.
他们说的都一样:如果你让它去,他不理你;如果你走得太近,它就向你冲来。
Understanding your bosses point of view will help you position your raise as a good thing for the company, instead of a good thing for you.
了解你的老板的想法能够帮助你把给自己加薪描述成一件有益于公司的好事,而不仅仅只是于你有利。
The very first thing is to disengage and allow some time for both of you to simmer down and reflect .
第一件事就是放开并给彼此一些时间来平息和思考。
"My favorite thing, meetings, " he deadpans , but he's glad to see that her natural resilience has kicked in.
“我的最爱,开会。”他面无表情,但很高兴她乐观的本性又回来了。
We're not talking about a crisis that will unfold over a year or two; this thing could come apart in a matter of days.
我们说的不是过一两年才会出线的危机,这种危机在几天的时间内都会发生。
The only odd thing about this election is the fact that the Democratic candidates both seem more comfortable with God-talk than Mr McCain.
在谈及宗教话题时,两位民主党候选人似乎要比共和党人麦凯恩惬意得多,这可真称得上是奇事一桩。
But if the thing you're passionate about, you think, "Boy, there's only a critical time window to get involved, " sometimes it does work.
但是如果事物你到处是热情的,你想,“男孩,只有一扇紧要关头的时间窗户可以积极叁与了,”有时它做工作。
So I finally decided, and to tell you a place in my life does not make sense, but the same boring thing.
所以我最后决定,和大家说一件发生在我生活中没有意义但同样无聊的事情。
This was not the sort of thing country boys did when they played at fisticuffs and Jack was furious.
这不是乡下小伙子斗殴时的那种搞法,杰克火冒三丈了。
The thing that masked her as having passed the line was that she no longer had reticences before her husband.
她超过年龄界线的标志是她在丈夫面前不再忸怩。
The thing to be explained is often called the explanadum or conclusion.
被说明的事物往往被称为被说明项或结论。
She was the most winning thing that ever brought sunshine into a desolate house.
她是把阳光带到一所凄凉的房子里的最讨人喜欢的小东西。
It would be a fearful thing to fall into the hands of these hard, uncouth men without legal papers.
没有合法的证件,万一落入那些狼心狗肺的家伙手里,那将是件非常可怕的事情。
You seem to have done the thing very completely.
你们办事似乎很周到。
It would be downright [sheer] madness to do such a thing.
做这种事纯粹是发疯。
"Ours is a poor nature, " continued the doctor. "Such a little thing knocks us down. "
“说起来,人是多么的可怜,”博士说,“这么一点小事就泄气了!”
The two went to work deliberately and regularly, like men accustomed to the sort of thing in which they were employed.
两个人仔细而有条不紊地,象个老行家似地动起手来。
Such a thing has happened before in the United States, and it has always meant disaster.
这种事情在美国历史上发生过,总是带来灾难。
The lucky thing was that he knew that Britten had done all his tricks at once, had shot his bolt.
幸运的是,他知道布列顿已经一次耍完他的全套花招,使出了他的全部能耐。
The best plan will be for you to be sent somewhere by me, to make a real thing of the excuse.
顶好我把你支使到一个地方去,以真作假才好。
"After all, " he thought, "the poor chap will get over it; not the first time such a thing has happened in this little city! "
“反正,”他心里想,“这个家伙会对付得了的;这种事情在这个小城市里也并不是破天荒!”
Joan had never been able to keep a thing to herself though she was always very incensed if one told her so.
琼从来就不能守口如瓶,可是如果人家说她是这样的人,她就会生气。
I have resolved that the best thing I can do in memory of him is to work.
我下了决心,纪念他的最好方法是努力工作。
You know how he loves that sort of thing.
你是知道的,他特别热衷于那种玩艺儿。
I felt as if it must be a fine thing to live in the country where there was such comfort and such luxury as this.
当时我觉得住在这么舒服、这么奢华的国度里准是件乐事。
The funny thing was that he remained standing there for at least four or five seconds, gently swaying.
事情有些蹊跷;他仍在原地站立着,至少有四、五秒钟之久,身躯轻轻地摇晃着。
She had felt that the changing of the world, the ending of all that echoed in her father's moaning, was the simplest thing on earth.
她却曾经觉得要改革世界,要终止她父亲诉苦的话里所显示的那一切,是易如反掌的事。
He assured me again and again that it was the last thing in the world he would dream of doing in a sober moment.
他几次对我表示,要是在清醒的时候,他断乎不会梦想干这营生的。
"My life used to be full of everything, " I said. "Now if you aren't with me, I haven't a thing in the world. "
“我的生活本来非常丰富,”我说,“现在你一不在,我在世界上就一无所有了。”
For he knew he would recognize the smallest thing that had belonged to her or that she had touched.
因为他知道:凡是她的东西,或她曾经碰过的东西,不论多么微细,他都认得出。
Her trouble was terrible; but was it a thing of her imagination, engendered by an extravagant sensibility?
事情是严重的,但这究竟是不是由过份敏感所引起的幻觉呢?
Nevertheless, it is true that he did not wish to be alone with the thing.
然而,说实在的他也不希望和这东西单独相对。
It was a nervous thing to have about me, and I didn't like to ask the king to carry it.
这种东西带在身上真让我心里发毛,请国王带着它呢,我又不大愿意。
She felt that she had arranged every thing extremely well, and that any alteration must be for the worse.
她觉得她已经把样样事情安排到不能再好的地步,任何变更都不如原来的安排。
It's a good thing God doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.
上帝不让你看到一两年后的事情,这是好事,要不然,你可能非开枪自杀不可。
She, too, had been awake all that night. She had been thinking of a thing which had agitated her mind a hundred times before.
她也是一夜没有睡,一直在想心事。这件心事已经不知多少回使她心神不宁。
"Grosvenor House, the Ritz and Park Lane are all out" , said Bette, as proud as if she had done the whole thing herself.
“格罗文纳饭店,利茨,公园巷饭店全都罢了工,”蓓蒂说,得意洋洋地就像她一手搞成的似的。
We're not politicians, like you; we've gone through hell long enough to want something of the other thing.
我们不像你,我们都不是政客;我们已经吃够了苦,要尝尝别的滋味了。
Ah, Dad had a little border. Flowers here, grass there. Next-door neighbor had the same thing, you know?
哈,爸爸有一条小边界,花在这,草在那。隔壁邻居的都是一样的,明白吧。
To shut him up, one day I suggested that I stay with him all day and note down every single thing he does.
为了让他闭嘴,有天我提议我一整天陪着他并记下他做的每一件事。
He might be all about basketball, but that's not the only thing on Kobe's mind.
可以说科比为篮球而生,但这绝不是他唯一在乎的事。
Who could have supposed you were going to do such a thing?
谁会想到你竟要做这样一件事呢?
The only thing I got from that speech was that people do not want to admit they're Polish.
我从他们的话里得出的唯一结论就是,人们不愿意承认自己是波兰人。
Sex, therefore, sensual desire, erotic desire is a bad thing; you're just trying to trap more sparks into more mud bodies.
因此性,肉体的欲望,性欲是坏事;,你只是在将更多的火花束缚于肉体之中。
The only positive thing about its latest announcement is that it shows the firm is at last beginning to face reality.
唯一值得肯定的是,此次宣告表明公司最终选择了面对现实。
He was as ready to absorb every bit of goodness in a thing as he was lavish in singing its praises.
正如他在歌声中极力颂扬的美好的事物一样,他也乐意吸收一样事物中点滴的精华。
Taht's why the American President, Franklin Roosevelt, said: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. "
这就是为什么美国总统富兰克林。罗斯福说:“我们唯一需要害怕的就是害怕本身。”
A: this is the biggest sports anyway, people crazy about it a normal guy like me, one of the biggest thing in life is watching soccer.
这是世界上影响力最大的运动,很多人为之疯狂,对于一个普通男人,像我这样的,看足球是生活中很重要的一项娱乐。
This morning I got up and tried not to think about anything, tried to avoid contact with people too much, just tried to do my own thing.
早上起床,我尝试不去想任何事情,想尽量避免人群,只专注我自己。
I'd swear to myself to do better next month, and satisfied with that vague goal, put the whole thing out of my mind. Repeat.
我对自己发誓下个月我会做好一点,并对这个模糊的目标感到满意,接着就把它抛到九霄云外去了。
Student: Life has no meaning without love would be a very sad thing to say.
学生,没有爱生活便没有意义,那是件悲哀的事情。
You know, when I had to do it. I'd make it into a soothing thing.
你知道,当我没办法不得不洗时啊。我就把洗碗当作很舒坦的事情去做。
Philosopher and historian Will Durant once observed that the only thing that could get countries to join forces would be an alien invasion.
哲学家和历史学家WillDurant曾经评论到,能让国家联合起来的唯一办法是外星人入侵。
He caught sight of a strange thing, a handless arm that seemed to be waving towards him, and a face of three large dark spots on white.
他一眼瞥见一只怪物,一只没有手的胳膊似乎正在向他挥动,一张白蒙蒙的脸上嵌着三个大黑点。
"It also just seemed like such a pie-in-the-sky thing, " he said of same-sex marriage.
“有种像天上掉馅饼的感觉”在他谈及同性婚姻问题时说道。
Yes it would, but the point is, no ordinary human being is ever going to do such a thing.
可以是可以,但问题是,没有人愿意这么做。
But I do not think it is at all a likely thing for him to do. Mr. Knightley does nothing mysteriously.
如果我觉得自己不能有模有样地见人的话,我是不喜欢跟朋友见面的。
The thing that I most wanted to do is being a policewoman when I was a little girl, I thought the best way is to be an athlete.
当我还是一个小女孩的时候,我最想做的所有的事就是当一名警察,我决定做好的方法是成为一名运动员。
Twice he saw the beginning of the kind of thing he was looking for.
有两次他看到自己正在窥伺的那种机会出现了苗头。
There is neither the word nor the thing of purgatory, neither in this nor any other text.
既没有关于炼狱这个词,也没有炼狱这回事;在这段经文中没有,在其他经文中也没有。
"I never heard of such a thing! " exclaimed the fat gentleman.
“这是闻所未闻的事情!”胖绅士嚷到。
Even if the bank people get tough or impatient, the thing to do is to smile back.
那怕银行的人态度变得粗暴,或是表示不耐烦,还是要报以微笑。
I figure that the only thing I have left in life is to do everything I can to stop the war.
我想,我此生还能做的唯一事情,就是尽我的一切力量来阻止战争。
I found the slender young thing bent to the earth, like an unfortunate creature borne down by misfortune.
我看见这棵细弱的小树弯到地上,好象一个走背运的可怜人。
He asked the fisherman's wife when her daughter was born, for that was the first thing he had to know.
他问渔夫妻子她女儿的生辰,因为这是他首先必须知道的。
For one thing, the first century and a half under British rule created emotional ties with the old country that were difficult to break.
举一件事来说,最初在英国统治下的一百五十年,产生了和故国在感情上的联系,那是难以割断了。
The thing was not only not a rupture, but she was under no obligation to regard it even as a menace.
这件事本身不但算不上绝交,她甚至觉得没有必要称它为危险。
The thing angered him greatly, but he was unable to hurt the monkey for fear of his master.
这种情况十分惹他恼火,然而由于怕得罪猴子的主人,他不能伤害他。