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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月四级真题(第三套)阅读 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月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
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And there's so many things I'd like to do with it.
2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 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月四级真题(第一套)阅读 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月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
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But I think successful negotiators have several things in common.
2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 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月四级真题(第三套)阅读 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月四级真题(第三套)阅读 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月四级真题(第一套)阅读 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月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
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He says visitors are already good at keeping things clean.
2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 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月四级真题(第一套)听力 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月四级真题(第三套)阅读 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月四级真题(第二套)听力 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月四级真题(第三套)阅读 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月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
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If yes, it's time to shake things up .
2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 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月四级真题(第二套)听力 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月四级真题(第三套)阅读 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月四级真题(第一套)阅读 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月四级真题(第一套)阅读 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月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
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It's an attitude of doing things.
2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 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月四级真题(第三套)阅读 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月四级真题(第一套)听力 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月四级真题(第三套)阅读 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月四级真题(第二套)阅读 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月四级真题(第一套)阅读 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月四级真题(第三套)阅读 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月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
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On the other hand, task-timers have a list of things they want to accomplish.
2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
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One of the most effective ways to concentrate is to write things down.
2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 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月四级真题(第二套)阅读 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月四级真题(第二套)阅读 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月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
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The cinema, the theatre, all that was very exciting with new things coming out.
2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 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月四级真题(第一套)阅读 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月四级真题(第二套)阅读 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月四级真题(第二套)阅读 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月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
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These focuses are not so different from the things in which they delight.
2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 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月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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They spend that money on other things, which stimulates the economy.
2016年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
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They use drugs with friends or at parties to get into the mood of things.
2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 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月四级真题(第一套)阅读 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月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
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Traffic jam leads to expense and unpredictability, things that keep investors away.
2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 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月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
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You do very well in a lot of things.
2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
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You have 20 kids doing different things.
2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 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月四级真题(第二套)阅读 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月六级真题(第二套)阅读 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月六级真题(第二套)听力 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月六级真题(第二套)阅读 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月六级真题(第一套)听力 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月六级真题(第二套)阅读 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月六级真题(第一套)听力 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月六级真题(第一套)听力 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月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
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But in the end, one of two things is true.
2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 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月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
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Cablevision hopes to allow customers to buy things with their remote controls early next year.
2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 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月六级真题(第二套)阅读 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月六级真题(第二套)听力 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月六级真题(第二套)听力 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月六级真题(第二套)听力 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月六级真题(第一套)听力 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月六级真题(第二套)阅读 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月六级真题(第二套)阅读 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月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
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Machines can't handle things they haven't seen many times before.
2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 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月六级真题(第二套)阅读 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月六级真题(第一套)听力 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月六级真题(第一套)听力 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月六级真题(第二套)听力 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月六级真题(第三套)阅读 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月六级真题(第一套)听力 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月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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People look longer at things they want to photograph, Dehl says.
2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
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since it's a government-operated institution, things don't move very fast.
2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 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月六级真题(第三套)阅读 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月六级真题(第二套)听力 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月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
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Sometimes we see things as human because we are lonely.
2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 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月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
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There are pros, cons and some other things to consider.
2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 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月六级真题(第二套)阅读 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月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
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We also do less tangible things like understanding what our readers want.
2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
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We do random things like asking people in the street questions and testing sports clothing.
2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 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月六级真题(第二套)听力 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月六级真题(第二套)阅读 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月六级真题(第二套)听力 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月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
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N-COUNT
(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.
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。”
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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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.
例句
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。
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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N-COUNT
(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 .
例句
Of course, literacy isn't the same thing as intelligence...
当然,识字和智力是两码事。
To be a parent is a terribly difficult thing...
为人父母真难啊。
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N-SING
(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.
例句
It isn't going to solve a single thing...
这什么问题也解决不了。
Don't you worry about a thing...
你什么也不必担心。
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N-COUNT
(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.
例句
I don't believe he would tell Leo such a thing...
我不信他会告诉利奥这种事。
'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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N-COUNT
(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.
例句
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。
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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N-COUNT
…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.
例句
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。
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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N-COUNT
(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.
例句
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。
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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N-COUNT
(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.
例句
Getting drunk is a thing all young men do...
喝醉酒这种情况小伙子都会有。
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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N-COUNT
(无生命的)物体,东西
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!
比彻姆,那不是一件东西,是一个人!
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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.
例句
This thing's virtually useless...
这玩意儿简直一点用也没有。
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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N-COUNT
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.
例句
You really are quite a clever little thing...
你真是个聪明的小家伙。
Oh you lucky thing!
你这个走运的家伙!
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N-PLURAL
衣物;财物;财产
Your things are your clothes or possessions.
例句
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。
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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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.
例句
Everyone agrees things are getting better...
大家都认为,情况正在好转。
A change of ownership might improve things...
改变所有权也许能使情况改善。
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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.
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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(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 .
例句
...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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N-SING
流行的东西;时尚
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...
我感觉不得不出去喝他个一醉方休,因为流行这样。
They were obviously of the opinion that his taste was not quite the thing.
他们显然认为他的品味已不太流行。
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PHRASE
在各种情况下;总是
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.
萨拉希望富兰克林在这件事上和所有其他事情一样,能遵循家庭传统。
...the old rule of health, which prescribes moderation in all things.
提倡凡事适可而止的传统养生之道
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PHRASE
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.
例句
I realised I had a big problem. I wanted to be all things to all people...
我意识到我有个大毛病,我总想不得罪任何人。
The film tries to be all things to all men — comedy, romance, fantasy, and satire.
这部电影试图面面俱到——既是喜剧、爱情剧、梦幻剧,还想是讽刺剧。
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PHRASE
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.
例句
People want to do the right thing and buy 'green'...
人们想要做正确的事,于是购买“绿色”产品。
Carrington did the honourable thing and resigned...
卡林顿作出了令人敬佩的举动,辞了职。
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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.
例句
It was not the done thing. In those days the man was supposed to be the provider.
那不符合社会习俗。在那个年代,养家的应该是男人。
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第一件事/最后一件事;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.
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钱拿到办公室去。
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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.
例句
I had always had a thing about red hair...
我一直很讨厌红头发。
He's got this thing about ties.
他对领带很在意。
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最好…,…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.
例句
Can you tell me whether it is a good thing to prune an apple tree?...
你能否告诉我该不该修剪苹果树?
In a new democracy, it is no bad thing to master the art of compromise...
在新的民主国家,掌握妥协这门艺术不是件坏事。
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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.
例句
Gossips made a big thing about him going on shopping trips with her...
风言风语把他和她出去购物这件事闹得沸沸扬扬。
I took his hand to make a big thing of introducing him to my mother...
我拉着他的手,郑重其事地把他介绍给了我母亲。
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(用于对比两种想法、行动、局势,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.
例句
It was one thing to talk about leaving; it was another to physically walk out the door...
说走容易,真要抬腿跨出门可就难了。
Borrowing $100,000 is one thing. Owing $425,000 is another!
借 10 万美元事儿小,欠 42.5 万美元这事可就大了。
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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.
例句
She was a monster. For one thing, she really enjoyed cruelty...
她是个恶魔。一方面,她确实以残忍为乐。
She was unable to sell it, because for one thing its size was awkward...
她卖不掉它,一来是由于尺寸用起来不方便。
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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.
例句
What with one thing and another, it was fairly late in the day when we returned to Shrewsbury...
忙完这个又忙那个,等到我们回到什鲁斯伯里的时候,天色已经很晚了。
Everybody came in with their Christmas order for beer and spirits and port and one thing and another.
每位来客都要为圣诞节订购啤酒、烈酒、波尔图葡萄酒等这样那样的酒。
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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.
例句
'I wonder why.' Mr. Dambar shrugged. 'It must be just one of those things, I guess.'
“我也不知道为啥,”丹巴先生耸了耸肩,“我想可能是赶巧了吧。”
It was simply one of those things, pure coincidence.
这是没办法的事,纯属巧合。
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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.
例句
He came by on Saturday to see if she was lonely. One thing led to another and he stayed the night.
他星期六过来看看她是不是感到孤独。自然而然地,他就留下来过夜了。
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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.
例句
We accept the right of all men and women to do their own thing, however bizarre...
我们承认所有人——无论男女——都有权以自己的方式去生活,不管其方式有多么怪异离奇。
She was allowed to do her own thing as long as she kept in touch by phone.
只要她保持电话联系,她就可以随心所欲地生活。
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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.
例句
Painful typhoid injections are a thing of the past, thanks to the introduction of an oral vaccine...
自从发明了口服疫苗后,令人痛苦的伤寒疫苗注射就成为了过去。
Cheap computers, faxes and phone calls will make commuting to work a thing of the past.
廉价的电脑、传真和电话通信将使每天坐车上下班成为历史。
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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.
例句
Dr Payne led Lana back into the examination room and told her she was seeing things...
佩恩大夫把拉娜领回检查室,告诉她她有幻视。
I thought I was hearing things yesterday. I thought I heard a cuckoo.
我想昨天我出现幻听了。我以为听到了布谷鸟叫。
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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.
例句
There really is no such thing as a totally risk-free industry...
完全没有风险的行业是不存在的。
'I found a mermaid.' — 'Don't be daft. There's no such thing.'
“我发现了一条美人鱼。”——“别说傻话了。哪有那种东西。”
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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.
例句
'What does your market research consist of?' — 'Well, the thing is, it depends on our target age group.'...
“你的市场调查有哪些内容?”“嗯,这个嘛,要视我们的目标年龄群体而定。”
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.
我要弄到开设言语治疗课程的经费了。但问题是,我不知道自己是否还想做下去。
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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...
猕猴桃正是健康的小点心。
I know the very thing to cheer you up.
我知道什么能让你提起精神。
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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条不紊。
They do agree Africa could teach America a thing or two about family values...
他们一致认为,在家庭价值方面,非洲可以教给美洲很多。