首页英语词典nothingnothing的意思

nothing

英 ['nʌθɪŋ] 美['nʌθɪŋ]

英英释义词组搭配考试真题实用场景例句

近义词small man mediocrity fry guy little nobody common person lay unimportant figure obscurity

反义词

neg. 没什么；毫不
n. 无；零；不关紧要之事
adv. 毫不；决不
pron. 无事；无物
int. 什么也没有

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词态变化

复数: nothings;

中文词源

nothing 无，没有

即no thing.

英英释意

1. a quantity of no importance;: "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"

2. a nonexistent thing

英文词源

nothing (n.): Old English naþing, naðinc, from nan "not one" (see none) + þing "thing" (see thing). Meaning "insignificant thing" is from c. 1600. As an adverb from c. 1200. As an adjective from 1961.

考试真题

There is nothing new about the four objectives.

That approach will eliminate most cord-cutting concerns—but what about their wireless equivalent, jamming? With the right device tuned to the right frequency, what's to stop a thief from jamming your setup and blocking that alert signal from ever reaching the base station?Jamming concerns are nothing new, and they're not unique to security systems.

Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money.

There's nothing mysterious about cooking the evening meal.

That was nothing though, compared to Germans, Italians, and the French, who stayed up around an hour and a half later on various days throughout the summer to watch the Cup.

Andrew Heidrich, an education network administrator from Sacramento, plays World of Warcraft for about two to four hours every other night, but that's nothing compared with the 40 to 60 hours a week he spent playing online games when he was in college.

The man is making a fuss about nothing.

"Say, you know, this is the best student I've ever had," says Kuheli Dutt, a social scientist and diversity officer at Columbia University's Lamont campus. "Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: 'The candidate was productive, or intel

Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: The candidate was productive,or intelligent,or a solid scientist or something that's clearly solid praise, but nothing that singles out the candidate as exceptional or one of a kind.

If nothing else, the situation has given my college son and me something to share.

It has some glue on it that has colored it slightly, but nothing that will prevent us from using it.

It's worth nothing that the overall share of young adults living with their parents was not at a record high in 2014.

Jamming concerns are nothing new, and they're not unique to security systems.

My dancing life began not because I wanted to do it, but because my mother was sick and tired of seeing me running around after school doing nothing.

Please keep in mind, this will be a new TV show, like nothing ever done before.

The medical community also takes aging for granted, and can do nothing about it except keep people within a certain health range.

They were friendly to her at work, but nothing else.

We have John standing by the time clock, and he swears he saw nothing irregular.

These math circles cost nothing, or they're very cheap for students to get involved in, but you have to know about them, said Rusczyk.

At this time there is nothing to take action on since the analysis has yet to be completed.

That was as it should be: kitchens were for servants, and the aspiring middle classes wanted nothing to do with them.

And that, fundamentally, is why claims that we face huge structural problems have been multiplying: they offer a reason to do nothing about the mass unemployment that is crippling our economy and our society.

LOL has evolved into something much subtler and sophisticated and is used even when nothing is remotely amusing.

But in the world of the application essay, it's nothing.

Since luxury is a function of scarcity, the children of tomorrow will long for nothing more than intervals of freedom from all the blinking machines, streaming videos and scrolling headlines that leave them feeling empty and too full all at once.

The urgency of slowing down-to find the time and space to think-is nothing new, of course, and wiser souls have always reminded us that the more attention we pay to the moment, the less time and energy we have to place it in some larger context

I turn to eccentric measures to try to keep my mind sober and ensure that I have time to do nothing at all (which is the only time when I can see what I should be doing the rest of the time).

Nothing makes me feel better than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, or music

knew nothing about the format of academic papers

In to day's personality stakes, nothing is more highly valued than the sense of humor.

There was nothing left except some pie.

Just look at this newspaper, nothing but robberies, suicide and murder.

As he prepared the speech, Juan kept asking himself, "How can I make this clear and meaningful to someone who knows nothing about earthquakes or geological principles?

"It's nothing new, it's nothing too complicated and it's natural because lots of people have TV remotes," says Rodriguez.

"These math circles cost nothing, or they're very cheap for students to get involved in, but you have to know about them," said Rusczyk.

And so there is nothing inherently wrong about stereotypes.

As long as it's impossible to produce something from nothing, costs are absolutely a barrier.

It's easy to blame technology for being so distracting, but distraction is nothing new.

Nothing dramatic, but there's something you should know about.

Oh, you only have Jazz music, nothing else.

People who are susceptible to decision fatigue will likely choose to do nothing over something, he says.

So I've got nothing to lose.

Stereotype may sound like a bad word, but there is nothing bad about it.

That includes tagging the foxes and monitoring their numbers to ensure nothing goes wrong.

Then, when we try to have that amazing work session in fight, we get nothing done.

A baby's play is nothing more than a game.

After he steadied himself, he shook Glenn's mother's hand, and the inspection continued as though nothing had happened.

And besides, he or she has seen many students stupider than you, so nothing you're gong to ask will set the record for stupidity.

And there is nothing mysterious about the mighty forces.

Boom towns grow from nothing almost overnight.

But the person who tries to do something and fails is a lot better off than the person who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

But what began as nothing important in public affairs has grown into a social movement.

I came to believe that I could do nothing about my weight.

I don't want to have nothing else to fall back on when I can't model my more.

I doubted it, but let him go ahead, for I had nothing to lose.

Long before most of us even noticed what we now call "the environment," Buckminster Fuller said, "Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting."

My color television has given me nothing but a headache.

Nothing good will happen when you are silent.

Nothing like this had ever been done before, and day after day I kept coming up with solutions, but none of them worked.

Or, maybe all I would find was absolutely nothing! But something inside me was going to climb that mountain at all cost.

Pahlsson and her husband searched the kitchen, checking every corner, but turned up nothing.

People were always doing things that annoyed her, and nothing was ever good enough.

Silences may be thoughtful, or they may be empty when a person has nothing to say.

The fact that college students are financially dependent on their parents is nothing new; nor are requests for more money to be sent from home.

The moments when I think cooking is a pain are when I'm already hungry and there is nothing ready to eat.

There is absolutely nothing you can do while this is going on but keep both eyes fixed on the sink until it's full.

There is nothing more tiring than not succeeding.

There was nothing but just green bushes and these steps.

There's nothing that ticks off a professor more than making him-or herself available for a custom office hour only to find that you don't care enough to come on time.

They had nothing in common with me.

This guy has nothing and yet he didn't take the wallet for himself；he thought about others instead it's unbelievable.

We've lit up the night as if it were an unoccupied country, when nothing could be further form the truth.

Worried about my health, I tried many different kinds of diets but nothing worked.

It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, “I love My Children, I Hate My Life,” is arousing much chatter – nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience.

Dare to be different, please don’t smoke!” pleads one billboard campaign aimed at reducing smoking among teenagers-teenagers, who desire nothing more than fitting in.

How do archaeologists know where to find what they are looking for when there is nothing visible on the surface of the ground? Typically, they survey and sample ( ' , make test excavations on) large areas of terrain to determine where excavation will yield useful information.

The core of her successful defence was that she knew nothing.

Opposition to telescopes on Mauna Kea is nothing new.

"Dare to be different, please don't smoke!" pleads one billboard campaign aimed at reducing smoking among teenagers-teenagers, who desire nothing more than fitting in.

How do archaeologists know where to find what they are looking for when there is nothing visible on the surface of the ground?

If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students'academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing.

It's no surprise that Jennifer Senior's insightful, provocative magazine cover story, "I love My Children, I Hate My life", is arousing much chatter – nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fu

Meanwhile, this policy does nothing to ensure that the homework students receive is meaningful or appropriate to their age and the subject, or that teachers are not assigning more than they are willing to review and correct.

Nothing is necessarily gained by forcing students to learn geometry at a graffitied desk stuck with generations of discarded chewing gum.

The core of her successful defense was that she knew nothing.

When I come home from work I have nothing to say.

词组搭配

be nothing to do with

见 do

for nothing

at no cost; without payment

无代价地，分文不花地；无偿地；无报酬地

working for nothing.
无报酬地工作。

to no purpose

徒劳地，白白地；无效果地

he died anyway, so it had all been for nothing.
不管怎么说，他已经死了，因此这一切都白费了。

have nothing on someone

he died anyway, so it had all been for nothing.
不管怎么说，他已经死了，因此这一切都白费了。

have nothing to do with

he died anyway, so it had all been for nothing.
不管怎么说，他已经死了，因此这一切都白费了。

no nothing

(informal)(concluding a list of negatives) nothing at all

(非正式)（用在一连串否定的最后）什么也没有

how could you solve it with no clues, no witnesses, no nothing?.
没有线索，没有证人，什么都没有，这案子你怎么能破得了？。

not for nothing

for a very good reason

很有好处

not for nothing have I a brother-in-law who cooks professionally.
我有个厨艺一流的姐夫是很有好处的。

nothing but

only

仅仅，只

nothing but the best will do.
只有最好的才行。

nothing daunted

nothing but the best will do.
只有最好的才行。

nothing doing informal 非正式

there is no prospect of success or agreement

没有希望

He wants to marry her. Nothing doing!.
他想娶她。没门儿！。

nothing is happening

什么也没发生

there's nothing doing, and I've been waiting for weeks.
什么事情都没发生，而我却等了好几个星期。

nothing (或 nothing else) for it

(Brit.)no alternative

(英)别无他法

there was &B{nothing for it but to} follow.
除了跟着（干）别无他法。

nothing less than

used to emphasize how extreme something is

不折不扣是，十足是；完全是

it was nothing less than sexual harassment.
那根本就是性骚扰。

nothing much

not a great amount; nothing of importance

数量不多；没什么重要的

there is nothing to it

there is no difficulty involved

毫无困难

stop at nothing

实用场景例句

I've done nothing much since coffee time...: 咖啡时间过后，我什么都没干。

Mr Pearson said he knew nothing of his wife's daytime habits...: 皮尔逊先生说，他对妻子白天的生活习惯一无所知。

Because he had always had money it meant nothing to him...: 因为他一直不缺钱，所以这对他来说不算什么。

While the increase in homicides is alarming, it is nothing compared to what is to come in the rest of the decade...: 虽然凶杀案的增加令人担忧，但和这个十年里接下来的几年将要发生的事相比却是小巫见大巫了。

The furniture was threadbare; he'd obviously picked it up for nothing...: 这件家具很破旧，显然他是白捡来的了。

Homes in this corner of Mantua that once went for $350,000 are now worth nothing.: 曼图亚市这个位置的房子曾一度卖到35万美元，现在不值几个钱了。

Around the lake the countryside generally is nothing special...: 湖四周的乡村总的来说没有什么特别的。

There was nothing remarkable about him...: 他没有什么特别之处。

Youngsters learn nothing so fast as how to beat the system...: 年轻人对如何钻制度的空子学得最快。

I consider nothing more important in my life than songwriting...: 我想我的生活中没什么比写歌更重要了。

Either he went through with this thing or he did not; it was all or nothing.: 他要么把这件事做完，要么就不做，只有这两种选择。

After all, 15 minutes of exercise is better than nothing.: 毕竟，锻炼15分钟比不锻炼好。

All that money brought nothing but sadness and misery and tragedy...: 钱带来的只是悲伤、痛苦和灾难。

It did nothing but make us ridiculous...: 这只是让我们显得很滑稽。

Pay now, or nothing doing...: 现在付钱，否则不行。

'I could take the subway and have David pick me up at the station.' — 'Nothing doing.': “我可以坐地铁，然后让戴维到车站接我。”——“不行。”

Much depends on which individual ingredients you choose. There is nothing for it but to taste and to experiment for yourself...: 很大程度上取决于你选择哪种配料。除了亲口品尝和动手尝试外，没有别的方法。

He wished he was not in a room so far from the bathroom. There was nothing for it but a long trudge through the house.: 他真希望自己的房间离卫生间不那么远，没别的办法，只能走上长长的一段穿过屋子。

Professor Fish has been nothing if not professional...: 菲什教授一贯表现出很高的职业水准。

Hollywood is nothing if not creative, especially if someone else will pick up the bills.: 好莱坞是极有创造力的地方，尤其是如果有人肯埋单的话。

'Thank you for the wonderful dinner.' — 'It's nothing,' Sarah said...: “谢谢你招待了这么美味的晚餐。”——“这没什么，”萨拉说。

'I'll be on my way. I can't thank you enough, Alan.' — 'It was nothing, but take care.': “艾伦，我要走了。真不知该怎么感谢你。”——“小事情，多保重。”

It's all rubbish and superstition, and there's nothing in it.: 这都是废话和迷信，不是真的。

This device has a gripper that electrically twists off the jar top. Nothing to it...: 这个装置有一个能拧开瓶盖的电动钳子，并不复杂。

If you've shied away from making pancakes in the past, don't be put off — there's really nothing in it!: 如果你过去不敢做烤薄饼的话，现在别迟疑了，真是一点儿都不费事!

What he had in mind amounted to nothing less than a total reversal of the traditional role of the executive...: 他头脑中所想的简直就是对管理人员传统角色的彻底颠覆。

You're nothing less than a murderer!: 你简直就是凶手！

Not for nothing was the plane called 'The widow-maker'...: 这种飞机被称作“寡妇机”是事出有因的。

It's not for nothing that interior decorators the world over look to the English country garden for glorious inspiration.: 全世界的室内设计师都希望从英国乡村花园汲取美妙的灵感，这并非没有道理。

What's wrong with you is that you think you can get something for nothing.: 你的问题是你认为自己可以不劳而获。

nothing

词态变化

中文词源

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考试真题

词组搭配

be nothing to do with

for nothing

have nothing on someone

have nothing to do with

no nothing

not for nothing

nothing but

nothing daunted

nothing doing informal 非正式

nothing (或 nothing else) for it

nothing less than

nothing much

there is nothing to it

stop at nothing

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