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- thing [θɪŋ] [θɪŋ]
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- 1. noun 物，东西；事物；局面；情况；形势[常用于复数形态]
- 2. noun 事业，行动，事情；举动，目的，行为
- 3. noun 单一物；有形物；无生命物
- 4. noun 项目；细节
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5.
noun
（用文字、符号等表示的）事物或概念
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6.
noun
思考物；注意
- think the right things
- 想得对头
- 7. noun [复数形态时]（个人的）所有物；衣服；[用于某种目的]用具，物品
- 8. noun 家伙，东西（指人，带有怜悯、爱或轻蔑等感情色彩）
- 9. noun [泛指]人、物、概念
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10.
noun
[verbal]
（争论的）论点，争端
- Don't make a thing of it.
- 别争这件事。
- 11. noun [American English] [verbal] 惧怕；对某一事物的特殊态度、感觉等
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12.
noun
[legal]
财产
- 13. noun [slang] 心爱物；拿手好戏
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14.
noun
[informal]
流行，时尚的事物
Collins English-English Dictionary
- thing [θɪŋ]
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1.
n
an object, fact, affair, circumstance, or concept considered as being a separate entity
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2.
n
any inanimate object
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3.
n
an object or entity that cannot or need not be precisely named
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4.
n
[informal]
a person or animal regarded as the object of pity, contempt, etc
- you poor thing
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5.
n
an event or act
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6.
n
a thought or statement
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7.
n
[law]
any object or right that may be the subject of property (as distinguished from a person)
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8.
n
a device, means, or instrument
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9.
n
[often plural]
a possession, article of clothing, etc
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10.
n
[informal]
the normal pattern of behaviour in a particular context
- not interested in the marriage thing
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11.
n
[informal]
a mental attitude, preoccupation or obsession (esp in the phrase have a thing about)
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12.
n
an activity or mode of behaviour satisfying to one's personality (esp in the phrase do one's (own) thing)
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13.
n
[Etymology]
Old English thing assembly; related to Old Norse thing assembly, Old High German ding assembly
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1.
n
an object, fact, affair, circumstance, or concept considered as being a separate entity
- thing [θɪŋ]
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1.
n
[often capital]
a law court or public assembly in the Scandinavian countries ting
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2.
n
[Etymology]
C19: from Old Norse thing assembly (the same word as
thing 1)
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1.
n
[often capital]
a law court or public assembly in the Scandinavian countries ting
Examples
- to follow one thing (up) with another thing
- 紧接着一件事做另一件事 → follow
- a thing of small account
- 一件琐事 → account
- Euclid's axiom that things equal to the same thing are equal to each other.
- 欧几里得关于等同于同一事物之物互相之间相等的公理说 → axiom
- to buy a thing blind
- 不看样品(或实物)就购买某物 → blind
- cast one's eyes or attention on a thing
- 把目光(或注意力)投向某物 → cast
- the coming thing
- 【美国英语，口语】即将变得时髦的东西；即将具有重要性的东西 → coming
- to guarantee that a thing will be done
- 答应办成某事 → guarantee
- the last thing in hats
- 最新式的帽子 → last
- One thing led to another.
- 一件事引起了另一件事的发生。 → lead
- the phantoms of thing past
- 往事的影子 → phantom
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