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  • 以下这些名词均包含 "事情" 的意思
    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。
词组
  • be all things to all men (或 people)
    please everyone, typically by regularly altering one's behaviour or opinions in order to conform to those of others 八面玲珑;投人所好
  • be on to a good thing
    (informal)have found a job, situation, or lifestyle that is pleasant, profitable, or easy (非正式)找到合适或待遇高的工作;过着舒适的生活
  • be hearing (或 seeing) things
    imagine that one can hear (or see) something that is not in fact there 产生幻觉,见神见鬼
  • a close (或 near) thing
    a narrow avoidance of something unpleasant 极险的事,死里逃生
  • do one's own thing
    (informal)follow one's own interests or inclinations regardless of others (非正式)做自己爱做的事;按自己的意愿行事
  • do the —— thing
    (informal, chiefly N. Amer.)engage in the kind of behaviour typically associated with someone or something (非正式,主北美)做…事
  • do things to
    (informal)have a powerful emotional effect on (非正式)对…施加显著影响;使受震撼
  • for one thing
    used to introduce one of two or more possible reasons for something, the remainder of which may or may not be stated 首先
  • have a thing about
    (informal)have an obsessive interest in or dislike of (非正式)对…有一种病态(或强烈)的爱好(或厌恶);对…抱有偏见
  • —— is one thing, —— is another
    used to indicate that the second item mentioned is much more serious or important than the first, and cannot be compared to it …是一回事,…又是另一回事
  • make a (big) thing of (或 about)
    (informal)make (something) seem more important than it actually is (非正式)把…看作必要,认为…必不可少
  • of all things
    out of all conceivable possibilities (used to express surprise) (表示惊讶)偏偏;真没想到,怎么搞的
  • (just) one of those things
    (informal)used to indicate that one wishes to pass over an unfortunate event or experience by regarding it as unavoidable or to be accepted (非正式)命里注定的事,不可避免的事;必须接受(或承认)的事
  • one thing leads to another
    used to suggest that the exact sequence of events is too obvious to need recounting, the listener or reader being able to guess easily what happened 事情接踵而来
英语四级真题
  • 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.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • I definitely feel things more strongly than the average person.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Clearly, there is no such thing as a perfect memory – their extraordinary minds are still using the same flawed tools that the rest of us rely on.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • The cinema, the theatre, all that wasvery exciting with new things coming out.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • Meeting people was the thing, and you went to coffee bars where you met friends and spent the evening.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • Another thing Katherine loved about Facebook was that she didn’t have to think about time zones when updating family.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • may be better at solving puzzlescan memorize things with more easemay have greater facility in abstract reasoningcan put what they have learnt into more effective usefind ways to slow down our mental declinefind ways to boost our memoriesunderstand the complex process of mental functioningunderstand the relation between physical and mental healthThe most important thing in the news last week was the rising discussion in Nashville about the educational needs of children.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • You should live your life attempting to identify and control those things which you can genuinely control.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Worry only about things that you can control.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • There are also rules dealing with interpersonal relationships: Be a responsible human being and do not do evil things to others.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The nice thing about ancient philosophy as offered by the Greeks is that they tended to see life clear and whole, in a way that we tend not to see life today.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The important thing is for all of us to keep in mind the real goal and the longer, bigger picture.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • So, Soupios explains, it is not worth it to waste our physical, intellectual and spiritual energy worrying about things that are beyond our control.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Obviously there are cultural differences, but if you were talking to another person and they came up close in your personal space, you wouldn't think that's the kind of thing a properly brought-up person would do.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • I think that things have become very gloomy these days, lots of misunderstanding, misleading cues, a lot of what the ancients would have called sophistry ( ' , 诡 辩 ).
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Stan Glantz, a professor of medicine in San Francisco,explains why: And you know, one thing that I wanted to ask you.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • They spend that money on other things, which stimulates the economy.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • As a person who writes about food and drink for a living, I couldn't tell you the first thing about Bill Perry or whether the beers he sells are that great.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • The thing that sets children apart from adults is not their ignorance, nor their lack of skills.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • That may be a bad thing, particularly at work.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Saving money is becoming a thing of the past.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • On the other hand, task-timers have a list of things they want to accomplish.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • It is a thing of no great difficulty, according to Plutarch, to raise objections against another man's speech, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • 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? These focuses are not so different from the things in which they delight.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • From data collected, it seems the things that cause us to lose the most sleep, on average, are sporting events, time changes, and holidays.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Do your contacts share your point of view on most subjects? If yes, it's time to shake things up.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • 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 rather than stringing together nonsense words, for example.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • "It is a thing of no great difficulty," according to Plutarch," to raise objections against another man's speech, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome."
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • "Too many of us may be paying for one thing, and getting another," the Attorney General said.
    2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • Also, remember a successful ending is not the only thing worthy of a celebration.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • Another thing Katherine loved about Facebook was that she didn't have to think about time zones when updating family.
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • As a person who writes about food and drink for a living, I couldn't tell you the first thing about bill Perry or whether the beers he sells are that great.
    2016年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • But my grandmother was a terror for that kind of thing.
    2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • But whether it's an English-cooked breakfast or a coffee and a sandwich, one thing has remained the same: the prices.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Clearly, there is no such thing as a "perfect" memory – their extraordinary minds are still using the same flawed tools that the rest of us rely on.
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Getting around a city is one thing — and then there's the matter of getting from one city to another.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • 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月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • I must say that's one thing that's always struck me about being a pub owner.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • If your goal is to have standardized approaches to learning, where everybody learns the same thing at the same time in the same way, then learning by doing doesn't really fit that mold anymore.
    2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • In fact, the camera could be the thing that proves that they didn't steal the $20 dollars, or knock the vase off the table.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • It is one thing to use AI within a game with clear rules and clear goals.
    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • It was fortunate that the family didn't try to dig up the fossil because that could destroy the specimen; they did the right thing by calling someone who would know what to do.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • It would seem silly to call such a thing a "disease".
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • One thing about the moon many people don't know is that it has a lot of garbage on its surface left over from human space exploration.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Research or common sense tells us that the best thing to do is keep your hands, utensils and other surfaces clean.
    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • That thing that you make is valuable to you and you can share it with others.
    2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • The critic in the local paper says it's the funniest thing he's ever seen.
    2018年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • The implication, in each case, is that curiosity is a good thing, and a lack of curiosity is a problem.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • The most important thing in the news last week was the rising discussion in Nashville about the educational needs of children.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • The printing, the books, I'm very attached to all that kind of thing that may not all be very entertaining in the modern sense of the world.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • The thing that you make has no value to you.
    2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • This led her to wonder if people might be doing the same thing.
    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Thus, rising microwave sales could be seen as a positive thing.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
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.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Cablevision hopes to allow customers to buy things with their remote controls early next year.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • But is this right? Do things get better or worse as we get richer? Here the Stockholm declaration is ambiguous.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • The other thing that people do forget is that these are medicines, so they do have an impact.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • When I teach in classroom, we often end up talking about things like success and what leads to success.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • And to start things off, I think what we need to do is consider a definition.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • 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..
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • It arouses students' interest in things around them.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • But it is another thing to have a supply of trained talent that could let you carry out this promise.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • And Brandston knows a thing or two about lighting, being the man who illuminated the Statue of Liberty.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • 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.
    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • 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.
    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • "The dangerous thing about lying is people don't understand how the act changes us," says Dan Ariely, behavioural psychologist at Duke University.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • "The thing you are searching for is reputation," says titus Brown, a genomics (基因组学) researcher at the University of California,Davis.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • And Brandston knows a thing or two about lighting, being the man who illuminated the Statue of liberty.
    2015年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • And over time, its members have learned a thing or two about responsibility.
    2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • 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.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • At any volume, there's still such a thing as too much information.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • Barely anyone notices and no one says a thing.
    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • But here's the thing: I loved my "lower-tier" university.
    2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • 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.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • 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.
    2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • For decades, researchers and law enforcement agencies have tried to build a machine that will do the same thing.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • For one thing, stereotypes are often accurate.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • For one thing, they are reliable and so far as they are based on unbiased samples.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • I found that this ability to instantly shift my attention was often a good thing, like when passing time on public transportation.
    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • 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.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • It's a rare thing for anybody to be able to change who they really are.
    2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • 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. "
    2015年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • 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
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Skin may seem like a superficial human attribute, but it's the first thing we notice about anyone we meet.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • 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.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • That's because rest and recovery are not the same thing.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • 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.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • The key thing about consumer behaviour is that it's very much about how consumers change.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • 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.
    2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • 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.
    2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • The same thing happens to people who stop moving, either mentally or physically.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • The thing is, machines still have limitations when it comes to facial recognition.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • 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.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • 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.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Ultimately, that's the thing universities don't want to admit.
    2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • 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
    2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • 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.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • 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.
    2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • 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.
    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
英汉词典释义
英英词典释义
  • Noun
    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
行业词典
  • 哲学: 物;