英汉词典

thing 基本解释

• n. 事情；东西；事物；情况

thing 词态变化

thing 中文词源

来自古英语 thing,会议，集会，讨论会，来自 Proto-Germanic*thingam,集会，词源同 hustings, 竞选活动。可能进一步来自 PIE*teng,思考，考虑，词源同 thank,think.复合词 hustings 来自 古英语 husting,会议，来自 house,屋子，thing,集会。后词义由会议引申为讨论的内容，最后 词义极大的扩大化，引申诸多具体和抽象的词义。

thing 英文词源

thing

thing: [OE] The ancestral meaning of thing is ‘time’: it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *thingam, which was related to Gothic theihs ‘time’, and may come ultimately from the Indo- European base *ten- ‘stretch’ (source of English tend, tense, etc). In Germanic it evolved semantically via ‘appointed time’ to ‘judicial or legislative assembly’.

This was the meaning it originally had in English, and it survives in other Germanic languages (the Icelandic parliament is known as the Althing, literally ‘general assembly’). In English, however, it moved on through ‘subject for discussion at such an assembly’ to ‘subject in general, affair, matter’ and finally ‘entity, object’. (The ancient meaning ‘assembly’ is preserved in fossilized form in English husting, etymologically a ‘house assembly’).
=> husting

thing (n.)

Old English þing "meeting, assembly, council, discussion," later "entity, being, matter" (subject of deliberation in an assembly), also "act, deed, event, material object, body, being, creature," from Proto-Germanic *thingam "assembly" (cognates: Old Frisian thing "assembly, council, suit, matter, thing," Middle Dutch dinc "court-day, suit, plea, concern, affair, thing," Dutch ding "thing," Old High German ding "public assembly for judgment and business, lawsuit," German Ding "affair, matter, thing," Old Norse þing "public assembly"). The Germanic word is perhaps literally "appointed time," from a PIE *tenk- (1), from root *ten- "stretch," perhaps on notion of "stretch of time for a meeting or assembly."

The sense "meeting, assembly" did not survive Old English. For sense evolution, compare French chose, Spanish cosa "thing," from Latin causa "judicial process, lawsuit, case;" Latin res "affair, thing," also "case at law, cause." Old sense is preserved in second element of hustings and in Icelandic Althing, the nation's general assembly.

Of persons, often pityingly, from late 13c. Used colloquially since c. 1600 to indicate things the speaker can't name at the moment, often with various meaningless suffixes (see thingamajig). Things "personal possessions" is from c. 1300. The thing "what's stylish or fashionable" is recorded from 1762. Phrase do your thing "follow your particular predilection," though associated with hippie-speak of 1960s is attested from 1841.

thing 词组搭配

thing 英文释义

1. a special situation;

"this thing has got to end"

"it is a remarkable thing"

2. an action;

"how could you do such a thing?"

3. an artifact;

"how does this thing work?"

4. an event;

"a funny thing happened on the way to the..."

5. a statement regarded as an object;

"to say the same thing in other terms"

"how can you say such a thing?"

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

"the thing I like about her is ..."

7. a special abstraction;

"a thing of the spirit"

"things of the heart"

8. a vaguely specified concern;

"several matters to attend to"

"it is none of your affair"

"things are going well"

9. an entity that is not named specifically;

"I couldn't tell what the thing was"

10. a special objective;

"the thing is to stay in bounds"

11. a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion;

"he has a thing about seafood"

"she has a thing about him"

12. a separate and self-contained entity

thing 同义词解析

affair, business, matter, concern, thing

这些名词均含"事情"之意。

affair：含义较广，侧重指已发生或必须去做的任何事情或事务。复数形式多指重大或较复杂的事务。

business：通常指较重要或较难而又必须承担的事情，也可指商事。

matter：普通用词，着重指一件考虑中的或需要处理的事。

concern：往往强调与个人或团体利害有直接或重大关系的事。

thing：用作"事情"解时，词义较笼统、含糊，多用于指不很具体的事。

thing 双语例句

1. The best thing to do when entering unknown territory is smile.

踏入未知地带最好的对策就是微笑。

来自美剧《凯莉日记》

2. "One thing you can never insure against is corruption among your staff."—"Agreed."

“永远也防不胜防的就是员工内部的贪污腐败。”——“同意。”

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3. The most amazing thing about nature is its infinite variety.

大自然最让人惊叹的是它的无限多样性。

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4. He hadn't eaten a thing except for one forkful of salad.

除了一餐叉色拉，他什么都没吃。

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5. I would be remiss if I did not do some-thing about it.

如果我对此不做点儿什么，就是不负责任。

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thing 实用场景例句

'What's that thing in the middle of the fountain?' — 'Some kind of statue, I guess.'...

“喷泉中间的那个是什么东西？”——“估计是塑像什么的吧。”

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She was in the middle of clearing the breakfast things...

她正在忙着收拾早饭后的那一摊子。

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These are genetic disorders that only affect males normally. They are things like muscular dystrophy and haemophilia...

这些遗传病通常只发生在男性身上，如肌肉萎缩、血友病等。

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The Earth is made mainly of iron and silicon and things like that...

地球主要由铁、硅等物质构成。

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Of course, literacy isn't the same thing as intelligence...

当然，识字和智力是两码事。

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To be a parent is a terribly difficult thing...

为人父母真难啊。

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It isn't going to solve a single thing...

这什么问题也解决不了。

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Don't you worry about a thing...

你什么也不必担心。

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I don't believe he would tell Leo such a thing...

我不信他会告诉利奥这种事。

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'Are you accusing me of being a thief?' — 'I have done no such thing, Tony.'...

“你在指责我是小偷吗？”——“我没有做过这种事，托尼。”

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I'm a bit unsettled tonight. This war thing's upsetting me...

我今晚有点心神不定，这场争斗让我不安。

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These folks clearly take this ballroom thing very seriously.

这些家伙显然很拿舞厅这事当回事。

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She'd actually taken it home and she put it in this jar thing...

她确实把它拿回了家，放在了一个罐子模样的东西里。

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The captain of the submarine has got this periscope thing.

那个潜艇艇长有个类似于潜望镜之类的东西。

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One thing I am sure of was that she was scared...

有一点我能肯定，那就是她当时被吓到了。

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The first thing parents want to know is: will the baby survive?...

父母亲最想知道的是：孩子能活下来吗？

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Getting drunk is a thing all young men do...

喝醉酒这种情况小伙子都会有。

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I never wanted to be normal. It was not a thing I ever thought desirable...

我从来也没有想要正常过。那不是我想做的事。

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It's not a thing, Beauchamp. It's a human being!

比彻姆，那不是一件东西，是一个人！

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This thing's virtually useless...

这玩意儿简直一点用也没有。

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They're armed with sub-machine-guns or machine-pistols or whatever you call those things...

他们持有轻机枪或者冲锋枪，还是什么玩意儿的。

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You really are quite a clever little thing...

你真是个聪明的小家伙。

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Oh you lucky thing!

你这个走运的家伙！

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Sara told him to take all his things and not to return...

萨拉叫他带着他的全部家当离开，再也别回来。

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Is there anything you'd like to borrow, before your own things are unpacked?

你在打开行李之前还要借什么东西吗？

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Everyone agrees things are getting better...

大家都认为，情况正在好转。

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A change of ownership might improve things...

改变所有权也许能使情况改善。

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...a movement away from the things of this world to the things of the spirit...

出世超凡

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I think I'm more aware now of some spiritual things and I do believe in good and evil.

我觉得我现在更加注重精神生活，而且我真的相信善恶报应。

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...John W. Campbell, author of 'The Thing From Another World.'

约翰·W.坎贝尔，《外星来客》的作者

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