Thing
[θɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a separate and self-contained entity.
(noun.) an action; 'how could you do such a thing?'.
(noun.) an artifact; 'how does this thing work?'.
(noun.) an entity that is not named specifically; 'I couldn't tell what the thing was'.
(noun.) any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence; 'the thing I like about her is ...'.
(noun.) a special abstraction; 'a thing of the spirit'; 'things of the heart'.
(noun.) a special objective; 'the thing is to stay in bounds'.
(noun.) a statement regarded as an object; 'to say the same thing in other terms'; 'how can you say such a thing?'.
(noun.) an event; 'a funny thing happened on the way to the...'.
(noun.) a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion; 'he has a thing about seafood'; 'she has a thing about him'.
(noun.) a special situation; 'this thing has got to end'; 'it is a remarkable thing'.
伯特伦編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.
(n.) An inanimate object, in distinction from a living being; any lifeless material.
(n.) A transaction or occurrence; an event; a deed.
(n.) A portion or part; something.
(n.) A diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as merely existing; -- often used in pity or contempt.
(n.) Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to pack or store one's things.
(n.) Whatever may be possessed or owned; a property; -- distinguished from person.
(n.) In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly.
贝弗莉錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Being (animate or inanimate), creature, substance, body, object, created being.[2]. Inanimate object, lump of matter, lifeless substance.[3]. Event, transaction, deed, act, action, occurrence, circumstance, matter.[4]. Part, portion, something.
伊夫林整理
解釋/意思:
n. a parliament or a court of law in Scandinavian countries.
n. an inanimate object: a living being (in tenderness or in contempt): an event: a part: (pl.) clothes wraps.—ns. Thing′iness reality objectivity: disposition to take a materialistic view of things; Thing′-in-itself′ a noumenon the Ger. ding an sich; Thing′umbob Thing′ummy (coll.) a thing anything an indefinite name for some person whom one cannot be troubled to name distinctly.—adj. Thing′y materialistic.—Do the handsome thing by to treat generously; Know a thing or two to be shrewd; Make a good thing of it to reap a good advantage from; The thing the proper or right thing.
校對:罗尼
例句/造句/用法:
- Marriage is a taming thing. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It was a thing to look at. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- By only raising my voice, and saying any thing two or three times over, she is sure to hear; but then she is used to my voice. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- It is sufficient if every thing be compleat in the object itself. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Here's a burial volume, just the thing! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- However probable it was to him, she had heard of no such thing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- May I ask you one thing more, Mr Rokesmith? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Aye, very true, my dear, cried the latter, though Jane had not spoken a wordI was just going to say the same thing. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I never will do a cruel thing, come what may. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- For example, I said, can the same thing be at rest and in motion at the same time in the same part? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Mr Sampson murmured that this was the sort of thing you might expect from one who had ever in her own family been an example and never an outrage. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- And I am glad of another thing, and that is, that of course you know you may depend upon my keeping it and always so far deserving it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- But instead of narrowing the scope of politics, to avoid it, the only sensible thing to do is to invent methods which will allow needs and problems and group interests avenues into politics. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- We have been speaking of life in its lowest terms--as a physical thing. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- There seems to be a _limit of growth_ for every kind of living thing. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Women are certainly quicker in some things than men. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I'm frank and open; considering all things, it was very kind of you to allude to the circumstance--very kind and polite. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I had settled things with father and mother. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Mr. Beaufort's secret, people were agreed, was the way he carried things off. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I prefer unlucky things. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- That horse certainly did things for him. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- This growth and dying and reproduction of living things leads to some very wonderful consequences. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In connection with the adoption of this lubricating system there occurred another instance of his knowledge of materials and intuitive insight into the nature of things. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Did you ever see any one who was kind to such things? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It was in vain for Annie to protest that she was weary of such things. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- That is not the way things come about: we grow into a new point of view: only afterwards, in looking back, do we see the landmarks of our progress. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I want some money, you know, Aunt--some to buy little things for myself--and he doesn't give me any. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- You will set things going in a better way, I am sure. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- There were, in fact, but few things which Luttrell did not vote a tax on life, being one of the most dissatisfied men I ever knew. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
錄入:玛格利特