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"I try to make things as inexpensive as possible," said Hunt, who uses free digital textbooks for his classes but designs his own curriculum.
2018年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B
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And that the characteristics adult children look for when they begin the search are not necessarily the things that make a difference to the people who are going to move in.
2016年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B
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And there's so many things I'd like to do with it.
2019年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section B
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As a physician, nutrition is one of the most powerful things you can change to reverse the effects of long-term disease.
2018年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B
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Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues rath
2015年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B
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But I think successful negotiators have several things in common.
2017年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section B
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But when it comes to one of the cruelest crimes—animal fighting—things rarely work out that way.
2016年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section A
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Considering that the government's standards are not nearly ambitious enough, the picture is clear: by not cooking at home, we're not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.
2015年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B
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Explaining what the data revealed, he said: "What you see is that even after three years, mental health is still better, which is unlike many other things that we think will make us happy." He observed that people living in green spaces were less stressed
2018年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C
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From data collected, it seems the things that cause us to lose the most sleep, on average, are sporting events, time changes, and holidays.
2015年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C
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He says visitors are already good at keeping things clean.
2019年12月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A
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I always feel down when I see others accomplishing things and I feel miserable about my own achievements.
2019年12月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B
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I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.
2016年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B
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I can promise you one thing: whatever you choose to do for a career, if you work hard at it, eventually, special things will happen.
2019年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C
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I think a maker space is more like a library in that there are multiple subjects and multiple things that you can lean.
2019年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B
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I was wondering if you'd see Smith, the man who was late, because you are so much better at handling things like this.
2016年12月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B
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If yes, it's time to shake things up .
2015年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
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If you are a graduate student, you may depend on your adviser for many things, including help with improving grades, acquiring financial support, forming an examining committee and getting letters of recommendation.
2016年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C
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I'm interested in how these things are expressions of that person, their ideas, and their interactions with the world.
2019年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B
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In some cases, schools should help children find new, more grown-up ways of doing the same things that are constant sources of joy: making art, making friends, making decisions.
2015年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B
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Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems?
2015年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B
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It's a place where you get to make things based on your interest and on what you're learning to do.
2019年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B
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It's an attitude of doing things.
2016年6月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A
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It's not the knowledge that is valuable, it's the practice of learning new things and understanding how things work.
2019年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B
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I've had the idea for some time that Jack Green's been busy stirring things up in connection with the latest wage claim.
2016年12月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B
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like cats, babies appear to engage in what's called "preferential looking"—looking longer at things that are interesting or unusual than things they perceive as normal.
2018年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C
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like good little scientists, children are always testing their child-sized?theories about how things work.
2015年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section A
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Many people don't know how to cook, Rea says, and they only know how to heat things up.
2018年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B
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Members—including guys named Jobs and Wozniak—started making and inventing things they couldn't buy.
2019年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B
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On the other hand, scientists are increasingly learning that aging and biological age are two different things, and that the former is a key risk factor for conditions such as heart disease, cancer and many more.
2017年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
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On the other hand, task-timers have a list of things they want to accomplish.
2015年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C
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One of the most effective ways to concentrate is to write things down.
2018年12月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B
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So take a step back, switch off the automatic pilot and actually stop and reflect about things like our priorities, our values, and our relationships.
2016年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B
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So, Soupios explains, it is not worth it to waste our physical, intellectual and spiritual energy worrying about things that are beyond our control.
2016年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B
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So, too, would the motion detectors in your home, so the thief will need to continue jamming once he's inside and searching for things to steal.
2016年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B
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The cinema, the theatre, all that was very exciting with new things coming out.
2017年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C
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The middle-aged person, Barth continued, can see death in the distance, but moves with a "measured haste" to get big new things done while there is still time.
2017年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C
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The word serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole in an 1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who 4twere always making discoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search of.
2017年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B
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There are many things that can cause confusion and memory loss, including health problems like temporary stoppage of breathing during sleep, high blood pressure, or depression, as well as medications like antidepressants.
2018年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
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There's no question people can take things a long way toward reversing diabetes, reversing high blood pressure, even preventing cancer by food choices.
2018年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B
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These focuses are not so different from the things in which they delight.
2015年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B
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They may not happen as quickly as you'd like them to, and they may turn out to be completely different from the special things you imagined at the beginnings but they will happen.
2019年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C
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They spend that money on other things, which stimulates the economy.
2016年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C
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They use drugs with friends or at parties to get into the mood of things.
2015年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C
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They're also only a single layer in what should ideally be a many-sided approach to securing your home, one that includes common sense things like sound locks and proper exterior lighting at night.
2016年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B
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think that things have become very gloomy these days, lots of misunderstanding, misleading cues, a lot of what the ancients would have called sophistry.
2016年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B
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Traffic jam leads to expense and unpredictability, things that keep investors away.
2017年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C
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When she started saying nice things about Hitler, microsoft turned her off and deleted her ugliest messages.
2018年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C
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You do very well in a lot of things.
2019年12月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B
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You have 20 kids doing different things.
2019年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B
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You should live your life attempting to identify and control those things which you can genuinely control.
2016年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B
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"What we find is you actually look at the world slightly differently, because you're looking for things you want to capture, that you may want to hang onto," Dehl explains. "That gets people more engaged in the experience, and they tend to enjoy it more."
2018年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
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A lot of the government advertising has been about individual responsibility, but actually understanding that drinking is very much about the social activity and finding ways to help young people get home safely and not end up in hospital is one of the th
2017年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C
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All researches agree that close to 25 billion devices, things and sensors will be connected by 2020 which incidentally is also the moment that millennials are expected to make up 75 percent of our overall workforce, and the fully connected home will becom
2017年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
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All those things are true, but aside from him, all his friends and family are played by actors.
2019年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A
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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.
2017年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B
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And my calendar always looked like a mess with loads of things to do, written across it.
2018年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B
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And to start things off, I think what we need to do is consider a definition.
2016年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C
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Aristotle and Socrates debated the nature of "akrasia"一our tendency to do things against our interests.
2017年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B
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But in the end, one of two things is true.
2018年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C
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But most people have no quarrel with the Amish for doing things the old-fashioned way.
2016年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section A
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Cablevision hopes to allow customers to buy things with their remote controls early next year.
2016年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C
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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.
2016年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
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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.
2015年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A
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Currently, I teach consumer behaviour to undergraduates in their second year, and we look at all kinds of things in consumer behaviour and particularly how consumers are presented in advertising.
2017年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C
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For example, in the case of young people's drinking, one of the things that I've identified is that drinking for people, say, between the ages of 18 and 24, is all about the social activity.
2017年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C
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For some, things work out fine, but others often find themselves stuck in a job they hate.
2017年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C
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It works for things as boring as archaeological museums, where people were given eye-tracking glasses and instructed either to take photos or not.
2018年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
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It's no wonder that new applications for the Internet of Things are moving ahead fast when almost every new device we buy has a plug on the end of it or a wireless connection to the internet.
2017年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
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killy learned an important secret shared by many creative people: innovations don't require genius, just a willingness to question the way things have always been done.
2019年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B
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Machines can't handle things they haven't seen many times before.
2018年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C
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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
2016年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B
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Of course, sometimes things happen at the last moment and I don't have a chance.
2015年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A
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Once we recognize that these things happen to us, we are half way to doing something about them.
2019年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B
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One of the things that businesses and indeed government organizations often fail to do is to really see what is happening from the consumer's perspective.
2017年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C
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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,
2016年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B
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One useful tip is that things are more likely to be remembered if you are in exactly the same state and place as you were when you learned them.
2017年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C
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Our research team has been looking at cultural differences in self-enhancing motivations, helping people have positive feelings towards not only themselves, but things connected to themselves.
2019年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C
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People look longer at things they want to photograph, Dehl says.
2018年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
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since it's a government-operated institution, things don't move very fast.
2016年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A
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since the middle of the 20th century, though, things have turned the opposite way—these days, punishing hours at your desk, rather than days off, are seen as the mark of someone important.
2017年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C
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Some of the statistical generalizations may be positive and some groups have reputations for being smart, for being loyal, for being brave, for all sorts of things that are not at all negative.
2017年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C
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Some people are too subordinate to others' opinions, too focused on decision consensus, too silent about their own point of view, too agreeable to take things on when they don't have time or energy.
2019年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C
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Sometimes we see things as human because we are lonely.
2019年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section A
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Then names of African-American leaders and heroes are called out, and everyone reflects upon the great things these people did.
2017年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C
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There are pros, cons and some other things to consider.
2019年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B
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They want to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the garbage dump.
2019年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B
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This is consistent with young children's usual tendency to look longer at things that aren't familiar.
2019年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C
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We also do less tangible things like understanding what our readers want.
2019年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A
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We do random things like asking people in the street questions and testing sports clothing.
2019年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A
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We have no chance of competing against machines on frequent high-volume tasks, but there are things we can do that machines cannot.
2018年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C
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What we find is you actually look at the world slightly differently, because you're looking for things you want to capture, that you may want to hang onto, Dehl explains.
2018年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
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You can also add different things if you like such as half-boiled egg or cured ham.
2018年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A
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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.
2016年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section B
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(不能、不必、不愿指明的)東西,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.
例句
'What's that thing in the middle of the fountain?' — 'Some kind of statue, I guess.'...
“噴泉中間的那個是什么東西?”——“估計是塑像什么的吧。”
She was in the middle of clearing the breakfast things...
她正在忙著收拾早飯后的那一攤子。
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等等;…之類
Thing is used in lists and descriptions to give examples or to increase the range of what you are referring to.
例句
These are genetic disorders that only affect males normally. They are things like muscular dystrophy and haemophilia...
這些遺傳病通常只發生在男性身上,如肌肉萎縮、血友病等。
The Earth is made mainly of iron and silicon and things like that...
地球主要由鐵、硅等物質構成。
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(用于形容詞后,與其一起表示該形容詞的意思)
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 .
例句
Of course, literacy isn't the same thing as intelligence...
當然,識字和智力是兩碼事。
To be a parent is a terribly difficult thing...
為人父母真難啊。
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N-SING
(用于強調)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.
例句
It isn't going to solve a single thing...
這什么問題也解決不了。
Don't you worry about a thing...
你什么也不必擔心。
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(尤用于否定句中,強調惡劣或困難)這種事,這種東西
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.
例句
I don't believe he would tell Leo such a thing...
我不信他會告訴利奧這種事。
'Are you accusing me of being a thief?' — 'I have done no such thing, Tony.'...
“你在指責我是小偷嗎?”——“我沒有做過這種事,托尼。”
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(尤指不太重要的)情況,形勢,活動,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.
例句
I'm a bit unsettled tonight. This war thing's upsetting me...
我今晚有點心神不定,這場爭斗讓我不安。
These folks clearly take this ballroom thing very seriously.
這些家伙顯然很拿舞廳這事當回事。
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…之類的東西;類似于…的東西
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.
例句
She'd actually taken it home and she put it in this jar thing...
她確實把它拿回了家,放在了一個罐子模樣的東西里。
The captain of the submarine has got this periscope thing.
那個潛艇艇長有個類似于潛望鏡之類的東西。
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(用來表示將要提及重要事情或特別想要對方知道的情況)
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.
例句
One thing I am sure of was that she was scared...
有一點我能肯定,那就是她當時被嚇到了。
The first thing parents want to know is: will the baby survive?...
父母親最想知道的是:孩子能活下來嗎?
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(常用于指代剛提及的事,表示強調或提供更多信息)
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.
例句
Getting drunk is a thing all young men do...
喝醉酒這種情況小伙子都會有。
I never wanted to be normal. It was not a thing I ever thought desirable...
我從來也沒有想要正常過。那不是我想做的事。
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N-COUNT
(無生命的)物體,東西
A thing is a physical object that is considered as having no life of its own.
例句
It's not a thing, Beauchamp. It's a human being!
比徹姆,那不是一件東西,是一個人!
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東西,玩意兒(表示蔑視或憤怒)
Thing is used to refer to something, especially a physical object, when you want to express contempt or anger towards it.
例句
This thing's virtually useless...
這玩意兒簡直一點用也沒有。
They're armed with sub-machine-guns or machine-pistols or whatever you call those things...
他們持有輕機槍或者沖鋒槍,還是什么玩意兒的。
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家伙,東西(用以提及人或動物的某一特點,通常表示喜愛之情)
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.
例句
You really are quite a clever little thing...
你真是個聰明的小家伙。
Oh you lucky thing!
你這個走運的家伙!
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衣物;財物;財產
Your things are your clothes or possessions.
例句
Sara told him to take all his things and not to return...
薩拉叫他帶著他的全部家當離開,再也別回來。
Is there anything you'd like to borrow, before your own things are unpacked?
你在打開行李之前還要借什么東西嗎?
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N-PLURAL
(泛指)情況
Things can refer to the situation or life in general and the way it is changing or affecting you.
例句
Everyone agrees things are getting better...
大家都認為,情況正在好轉。
A change of ownership might improve things...
改變所有權也許能使情況改善。
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物質生活;精神生活
Things can refer to a particular aspect of life, such as the physical or spiritual aspect.
例句
...a movement away from the things of this world to the things of the spirit...
出世超凡
I think I'm more aware now of some spiritual things and I do believe in good and evil.
我覺得我現在更加注重精神生活,而且我真的相信善惡報應。
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(難以言表的)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 .
例句
...John W. Campbell, author of 'The Thing From Another World.'
約翰·W.坎貝爾,《外星來客》的作者
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N-SING
流行的東西;時尚
If you say that something is the thing, you mean that it is fashionable or popular.
例句
I feel under pressure to go out and get drunk because it's the thing to do...
我感覺不得不出去喝他個一醉方休,因為流行這樣。
They were obviously of the opinion that his taste was not quite the thing.
他們顯然認為他的品味已不太流行。
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PHRASE
在各種情況下;總是
In all things means in every situation and at all times.
例句
Sara wished Franklin to follow family tradition, in this as in all things.
薩拉希望富蘭克林在這件事上和所有其他事情一樣,能遵循家庭傳統。
...the old rule of health, which prescribes moderation in all things.
提倡凡事適可而止的傳統養生之道
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八面玲瓏;四面討好
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.
例句
I realised I had a big problem. I wanted to be all things to all people...
我意識到我有個大毛病,我總想不得罪任何人。
The film tries to be all things to all men — comedy, romance, fantasy, and satire.
這部電影試圖面面俱到——既是喜劇、愛情劇、夢幻劇,還想是諷刺劇。
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PHRASE
做(正確或得體的)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.
例句
People want to do the right thing and buy 'green'...
人們想要做正確的事,于是購買“綠色”產品。
Carrington did the honourable thing and resigned...
卡林頓作出了令人敬佩的舉動,辭了職。
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符合社會習俗的事
If you say that something is the done thing, you mean it is the most socially acceptable way to behave.
例句
It was not the done thing. In those days the man was supposed to be the provider.
那不符合社會習俗。在那個年代,養家的應該是男人。
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第一件事/最后一件事;一大早/臨睡前
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.
例句
I'll go see her, first thing...
我一早就去看她。
Take the money to your office without fail, first thing in the morning...
早上第一件事是一定要把錢拿到辦公室去。
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對…很反感;對…有特別的感覺
If you have a thing about someone or something, you have very strong feelings about them.
例句
I had always had a thing about red hair...
我一直很討厭紅頭發。
He's got this thing about ties.
他對領帶很在意。
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最好…,…較好(用來提出建議或評論)
You say it is a good thing to do something to introduce a piece of advice or a comment on a situation or activity.
例句
Can you tell me whether it is a good thing to prune an apple tree?...
你能否告訴我該不該修剪蘋果樹?
In a new democracy, it is no bad thing to master the art of compromise...
在新的民主國家,掌握妥協這門藝術不是件壞事。
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大肆渲染;小題大做;把事情鬧大
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.
例句
Gossips made a big thing about him going on shopping trips with her...
風言風語把他和她出去購物這件事鬧得沸沸揚揚。
I took his hand to make a big thing of introducing him to my mother...
我拉著他的手,鄭重其事地把他介紹給了我母親。
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(用于對比兩種想法、行動、局勢,強調第二種更困難、重要或極端)…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.
例句
It was one thing to talk about leaving; it was another to physically walk out the door...
說走容易,真要抬腿跨出門可就難了。
Borrowing $100,000 is one thing. Owing $425,000 is another!
借 10 萬美元事兒小,欠 42.5 萬美元這事可就大了。
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一方面;一來
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.
例句
She was a monster. For one thing, she really enjoyed cruelty...
她是個惡魔。一方面,她確實以殘忍為樂。
She was unable to sell it, because for one thing its size was awkward...
她賣不掉它,一來是由于尺寸用起來不方便。
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各種原因;諸多事項
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.
例句
What with one thing and another, it was fairly late in the day when we returned to Shrewsbury...
忙完這個又忙那個,等到我們回到什魯斯伯里的時候,天色已經很晚了。
Everybody came in with their Christmas order for beer and spirits and port and one thing and another.
每位來客都要為圣誕節訂購啤酒、烈酒、波爾圖葡萄酒等這樣那樣的酒。
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沒辦法解釋的事;趕巧發生
If you say it is just one of those things you mean that you cannot explain something because it seems to happen by chance.
例句
'I wonder why.' Mr. Dambar shrugged. 'It must be just one of those things, I guess.'
“我也不知道為啥,”丹巴先生聳了聳肩,“我想可能是趕巧了吧。”
It was simply one of those things, pure coincidence.
這是沒辦法的事,純屬巧合。
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順理成章;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.
例句
He came by on Saturday to see if she was lonely. One thing led to another and he stayed the night.
他星期六過來看看她是不是感到孤獨。自然而然地,他就留下來過夜了。
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我行我素;特立獨行
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.
例句
We accept the right of all men and women to do their own thing, however bizarre...
我們承認所有人——無論男女——都有權以自己的方式去生活,不管其方式有多么怪異離奇。
She was allowed to do her own thing as long as she kept in touch by phone.
只要她保持電話聯系,她就可以隨心所欲地生活。
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不復存在的事物;過去的東西
If something is a thing of the past, it no longer exists or happens, or is being replaced by something new.
例句
Painful typhoid injections are a thing of the past, thanks to the introduction of an oral vaccine...
自從發明了口服疫苗后,令人痛苦的傷寒疫苗注射就成為了過去。
Cheap computers, faxes and phone calls will make commuting to work a thing of the past.
廉價的電腦、傳真和電話通信將使每天坐車上下班成為歷史。
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幻視/幻聽
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.
例句
Dr Payne led Lana back into the examination room and told her she was seeing things...
佩恩大夫把拉娜領回檢查室,告訴她她有幻視。
I thought I was hearing things yesterday. I thought I heard a cuckoo.
我想昨天我出現幻聽了。我以為聽到了布谷鳥叫。
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沒有這回事;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.
例句
There really is no such thing as a totally risk-free industry...
完全沒有風險的行業是不存在的。
'I found a mermaid.' — 'Don't be daft. There's no such thing.'
“我發現了一條美人魚。”——“別說傻話了。哪有那種東西。”
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原因是;情況是;問題是
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.
例句
'What does your market research consist of?' — 'Well, the thing is, it depends on our target age group.'...
“你的市場調查有哪些內容?”“嗯,這個嘛,要視我們的目標年齡群體而定。”
I'm getting a grant for a speech therapy course. But the thing is, I don't know whether I want to do it any more.
我要弄到開設言語治療課程的經費了。但問題是,我不知道自己是否還想做下去。
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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.
例句
Kiwi fruit are just the thing for a healthy snack...
獼猴桃正是健康的小點心。
I know the very thing to cheer you up.
我知道什么能讓你提起精神。
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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.
例句
Patricia Hewitt knows a thing or two about how to be well-organised...
帕特里夏·休伊特很了解如何做到有條不紊。
They do agree Africa could teach America a thing or two about family values...
他們一致認為,在家庭價值方面,非洲可以教給美洲很多。