thing

英[θɪŋ]美[θɪŋ]

n.事件，形势，东西，事物，家伙，事业；

复数：things;

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An odd thing happened to him this morning.他今天早晨遇到一件怪事。

I won't hear of such a thing.我不同意这样的事情。

Such a thing has never been heard of before.这种事情前所未闻。

I never dreamed of such a thing.我从没梦想过这样的事情。

When everything is running smoothly, why must he step in and foul thing up?一切正在顺利进行时, 为什么他一定要插进去把事情弄糟呢?

It may not be a bad thing that they write off their marriage before it begins.他们断绝了关系未结婚, 这可能并非坏事。

She has a thing about her parents.她特别怕她的父母。

She's had a thing about spiders.她特别讨厌蜘蛛。

I've had a thing about men in uniform.我特别喜欢穿制服的人。

It all boils down to one thing— human nature.所有这些都可归结为一点——人的天性。

英语六级真题

Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe that there is no such thing as too much involvement in a child's education.

American parents want similar things for their children, the Pew report and past research have found: for them to be healthy and happy, honest and ethical, caring and compassionate.

One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this ecological overshoot of the human economy, and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in, and all those services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.

Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often perform a lot more tests and treatments than a patient really needs.

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage ( ' , 下 水道污水) to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

Cablevision hopes to allow customers to buy things with their remote controls early next year.

But is this right? Do things get better or worse as we get richer? Here the Stockholm declaration is ambiguous.

A surprising thing for the man who runs one of the world's most powerful economies to say? Perhaps; though in the run-up to the five-year review of the Millennium ( ' , 千年的) Goals, he is far from alone.

You know, one of the first things I like to tell people when they ask me about the supplements, is that a lot of them are promoted as a cure for your memory, but your memory doesn’t need a cure.

The other thing that people do forget is that these are medicines, so they do have an impact.

The other thing is that a lot of these supplements aren’t necessarily what they claim to be, and you really have to be wary when you take any of them.

find digital devices simply indispensablecommunicate primarily by mobile phonelight their homes with stored solar energydistribute power with wires and wooden polesbenefit their business transmit power faster promote innovationencourage competitionIt might become a thing of the past.

What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build, as more and more people become prosumers, who produce and consume their own energy on-site?No one knows which – if any – battery technology will ultimately dominate, but one thing remains clear: The future of energy is in how we store it.

The ROWE participants were allowed to freely determine when, where and how they worked – the only thing that mattered was that they got the job done.

Meanwhile, emerging technologies – the drones, 3D printers and smart-home devices of the world – now seem a bit too old to be called the next big thing.

Carli says that one of the most significant things about his study is that it provides new early-warning signs for parents, teachers and mental health-care providers.

You say your shop has been doing well, could you give me some idea of what doing well means in facts and figures?Birds are famous for carrying things around.

When I teach in classroom, we often end up talking about things like success and what leads to success.

And to start things off, I think what we need to do is consider a definition.

Perhaps a new phrase is needed, one that can bring everyone one big step closer to realizing Du Bois's original, idealistic hope: It's not the name—it's the Thing that counts..

It is one thing to say that we are going to shift 30 percent of our electricity supply from, say, coal to nuclear power in 20 years.

It arouses students' interest in things around them.

But it is another thing to have a supply of trained talent that could let you carry out this promise.

And Brandston knows a thing or two about lighting, being the man who illuminated the Statue of Liberty.

Hello Jane.Charles, among other things, you are regarded as one of the America’s great masters of the Blues, a musical idiom that’s essentially about loss, particularly the loss of romantic love.

Charles, among other things, you are regarded as one of the America’s great masters of the Blues, a musical idiom that’s essentially about loss, particularly the loss of romantic love.

According to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies,about three quarter of energy we use to move things, including ourselves, accomplishes no useful work.

"The dangerous thing about lying is people don't understand how the act changes us," says Dan Ariely, behavioural psychologist at Duke University.

"The thing you are searching for is reputation," says titus Brown, a genomics (基因组学) researcher at the University of California,Davis.

And Brandston knows a thing or two about lighting, being the man who illuminated the Statue of liberty.

And over time, its members have learned a thing or two about responsibility.

And the funny thing is that if you love what you do and are really passionate about it and work really hard, the money kind of comes automatically.

At any volume, there's still such a thing as too much information.

Barely anyone notices and no one says a thing.

But here's the thing: I loved my "lower-tier" university.

But if we're talking about the benefits to society, the only thing that matters is what the major enables the student to produce for society.

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

For decades, researchers and law enforcement agencies have tried to build a machine that will do the same thing.

For one thing, stereotypes are often accurate.

For one thing, they are reliable and so far as they are based on unbiased samples.

I found that this ability to instantly shift my attention was often a good thing, like when passing time on public transportation.

I thought one interesting thing in the video was the idea of passion being so important and that people who really love what they do.

It's a rare thing for anybody to be able to change who they really are.

Perhaps a new phrase is needed, one that can bring everyone one big step closer to realizing Du Bois' original, idealistic hope: "It's not the name — It's the Thing that counts. "

Professor Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence A will be "either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity", and praised the creation of an academic institute dedicated to researching the future o

Skin may seem like a superficial human attribute, but it's the first thing we notice about anyone we meet.

So far, the main thing many large retailers have done in response to all this is to open online stores, so people will come to them directly rather than to Amazon and its smaller online rivals.

That's because rest and recovery are not the same thing.

The first thing every bank will do is study how much money I have and how much debt I have before they decide whether or not to lend me any more money.

The key thing about consumer behaviour is that it's very much about how consumers change.

The other thing is that a lot of these supplements aren't necessarily what they claim to be, and you really have to be wary when you take any of them.

The ROWE participants were allowed to freely determine when, where and how they worked – the only thing that mattered was that they got the job done.

The same thing happens to people who stop moving, either mentally or physically.

The thing is, machines still have limitations when it comes to facial recognition.

The very first thing that scientists discovered with the mission to another planet was that Venus was not at all the earthly paradise that fiction had portrayed.

They have to give so much thought and attention to the low-level mechanics of handling the ball, or fingering the keys or reading the music, that they are unable to give any thought to the thing that matters—the game, or the music, respectively.

Ultimately, that's the thing universities don't want to admit.

We believe that at least part of the problem lies in places other than the interaction between scientists and members of the media, and exists because for one thing we underestimate how difficult it is for scientists to communicate effectively with a dive

We should assure such students that risk, and even peer pressure, can be a good thing—as long as it happens in the classroom and not in the car.

When I re-entered the full-time workforce a few years ago after a decade of solitary self-employment, there was one thing I was looking forward to the most: the opportunity to have work friends once again.

While there is still much progress to be made, other countries could learn a thing or two from the example set by France and Italy.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

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(不能、不必、不愿指明的)东西，事物，特征，事情

You can use thing to refer to any object, feature, or event when you cannot, need not, or do not want to refer to it more precisely.

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等等;…之类

Thing is used in lists and descriptions to give examples or to increase the range of what you are referring to.

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(用于形容词后，与其一起表示该形容词的意思)

Thing is often used after an adjective, where it would also be possible just to use the adjective. For example, you can say it's a different thing instead of it's different .

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(用于强调)任何事情，每件事

Thing is often used instead of the pronouns 'anything,' or 'everything' in order to emphasize what you are saying.

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(尤用于否定句中，强调恶劣或困难)这种事，这种东西

Thing is used in expressions such as such a thing or things like that, especially in negative statements, in order to emphasize the bad or difficult situation you are referring back to.

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(尤指不太重要的)情况,形势,活动,想法

You can use thing to refer in a vague way to a situation, activity, or idea, especially when you want to suggest that it is not very important.

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…之类的东西;类似于…的东西

You can use thing when you are referring to something that you are uncertain or vague about, after mentioning something that it resembles or could possibly be.

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(用来表示将要提及重要事情或特别想要对方知道的情况)

You often use thing to indicate to the person you are addressing that you are about to mention something important, or something that you particularly want them to know.

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(常用于指代刚提及的事，表示强调或提供更多信息)

Thing is often used to refer back to something that has just been mentioned, either to emphasize it or to give more information about it.

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(无生命的)物体，东西

A thing is a physical object that is considered as having no life of its own.

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东西，玩意儿(表示蔑视或愤怒)

Thing is used to refer to something, especially a physical object, when you want to express contempt or anger towards it.

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家伙，东西（用以提及人或动物的某一特点，通常表示喜爱之情)

You can call a person or an animal a particular thing when you want to mention a particular quality that they have and express your feelings towards them, usually affectionate feelings.

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N-PLURAL

衣物;财物;财产

Your things are your clothes or possessions.

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N-PLURAL

(泛指)情况

Things can refer to the situation or life in general and the way it is changing or affecting you.

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N-PLURAL

物质生活;精神生活

Things can refer to a particular aspect of life, such as the physical or spiritual aspect.

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(难以言表的)可怕的事情，怪事，恐怖的事情

You can refer to something that is too frightening, strange, or horrible to describe clearly as a thing .

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流行的东西;时尚

If you say that something is the thing, you mean that it is fashionable or popular.

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在各种情况下;总是

In all things means in every situation and at all times.

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八面玲珑;四面讨好

If you say that someone or something is trying to be all things to all men or to all people, you are criticizing them because they are trying to behave in a way that will please everyone, and this is impossible.

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做(正确或得体的)事

If, for example, you do the right thing or do the decent thing in a situation, you do something which is considered correct or socially acceptable in that situation.

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符合社会习俗的事

If you say that something is the done thing, you mean it is the most socially acceptable way to behave.

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第一件事/*后一件事;一大早/临睡前

If you do something first thing, you do it at the beginning of the day, before you do anything else. If you do it last thing, you do it at the end of the day, before you go to bed or go to sleep.

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对…很反感;对…有特别的感觉

If you have a thing about someone or something, you have very strong feelings about them.

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*好…，…较好(用来提出建议或评论)

You say it is a good thing to do something to introduce a piece of advice or a comment on a situation or activity.

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大肆渲染;小题大做;把事情闹大

If you make a thing of something or make a thing about it, you talk about it or do it in an exaggerated way, so that it seems much more important than it really is.

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(用于对比两种想法、行动、*势，强调第二种更困难、重要或极端)…是一回事

You can say that the first of two ideas, actions, or situations is one thing when you want to contrast it with a second idea, action, or situation and emphasize that the second one is much more difficult, important, or extreme.

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一方面;一来

You can say for one thing when you are explaining a statement or answering a question, to suggest that you are not giving the whole explanation or answer, and that there are other points that you could add to it.

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各种原因;诸多事项

You can use the expression 'one thing and another' to suggest that there are several reasons for something or several items on a list, but you are not going to explain or mention them all.

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没办法解释的事;赶巧发生

If you say it is just one of those things you mean that you cannot explain something because it seems to happen by chance.

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顺理成章;自然而然

You say one thing led to another when you are explaining how something happened, but you do not really want to give the details or you think people will be able to imagine the details.

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我行我素;特立独行

If you do your own thing, you live, act, or behave in the way you want to, without paying attention to convention or depending on other people.

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不复存在的事物;过去的东西

If something is a thing of the past, it no longer exists or happens, or is being replaced by something new.

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幻视/幻听

If you say that someone is seeing or hearing things, you mean that they believe they are seeing or hearing something that is not really there.

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没有这回事;不可能的事

You can say there is no such thing as something to emphasize that it does not exist or is not possible.

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原因是;情况是;问题是

You say the thing is to introduce an explanation, comment, or opinion, that relates to something that has just been said. The thing is is often used to identify a problem relating to what has just been said.

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正是所要的;正是所需的

If you say that something is just the thing or is the very thing, you are emphasizing that it is exactly what is wanted or needed.

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十分了解;精通

If you say that a person knows a thing or two about something or could teach someone a thing or two about it, you mean that they know a lot about it or are good at it.

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英汉词典释义

n.

物, 东西

人, 动物 ; 衣服

需要之物, 想要之物

想法, 意见, 观念

行动, 行为, 事件

题目; 事情

所有物, 财产; 用品, 工具

情况; 形势

物件；物品；事物

任何东西（用于否定句，加强语气）

所有…的事物；凡是…的东西

生物；有生命的东西

英英词典释义

Noun

1. a special situation;

2. an action;

3. an artifact;

4. an event;

5. a statement regarded as an object;

6. any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence;

7. a special abstraction;

8. a vaguely specified concern;

9. an entity that is not named specifically;

10. a special objective;

11. a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion;

12. a separate and self-contained entity

行业词典

哲学： 物；