首页英语词典thingthing的意思

thing

英 [θɪŋ] 美[θɪŋ]

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近义词matters affairs work

n. 事情；东西；事物；情况

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词态变化

复数: things;

中文词源

thing 东西，事物，物品

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。

英英释意

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

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’).
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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.

同义词辨析

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。

考试真题

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.

I definitely feel things more strongly than the average person.

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.

The cinema, the theatre, all that wasvery exciting with new things coming out.

Meeting people was the thing, and you went to coffee bars where you met friends and spent the evening.

Another thing Katherine loved about Facebook was that she didn’t have to think about time zones when updating family.

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You should live your life attempting to identify and control those things which you can genuinely control.

Worry only about things that you can control.

There are also rules dealing with interpersonal relationships: Be a responsible human being and do not do evil things to others.

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.

The important thing is for all of us to keep in mind the real goal and the longer, bigger picture.

So, Soupios explains, it is not worth it to waste our physical, intellectual and spiritual energy worrying about things that are beyond our control.

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.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

Stan Glantz, a professor of medicine in San Francisco,explains why: And you know, one thing that I wanted to ask you.

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.

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.

They spend that money on other things, which stimulates the economy.

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.

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.

The thing that sets children apart from adults is not their ignorance, nor their lack of skills.

That may be a bad thing, particularly at work.

Saving money is becoming a thing of the past.

On the other hand, task-timers have a list of things they want to accomplish.

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.

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.

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.

From data collected, it seems the things that cause us to lose the most sleep, on average, are sporting events, time changes, and holidays.

Do your contacts share your point of view on most subjects? If yes, it's time to shake things up.

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.

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.

"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."

"Too many of us may be paying for one thing, and getting another," the Attorney General said.

Also, remember a successful ending is not the only thing worthy of a celebration.

Another thing Katherine loved about Facebook was that she didn't have to think about time zones when updating family.

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.

But my grandmother was a terror for that kind of thing.

But whether it's an English-cooked breakfast or a coffee and a sandwich, one thing has remained the same: the prices.

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.

Getting around a city is one thing — and then there's the matter of getting from one city to another.

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.

I must say that's one thing that's always struck me about being a pub owner.

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.

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.

It is one thing to use AI within a game with clear rules and clear goals.

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.

It would seem silly to call such a thing a "disease".

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.

Research or common sense tells us that the best thing to do is keep your hands, utensils and other surfaces clean.

That thing that you make is valuable to you and you can share it with others.

The critic in the local paper says it's the funniest thing he's ever seen.

The implication, in each case, is that curiosity is a good thing, and a lack of curiosity is a problem.

The most important thing in the news last week was the rising discussion in Nashville about the educational needs of children.

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.

The thing that you make has no value to you.

This led her to wonder if people might be doing the same thing.

Thus, rising microwave sales could be seen as a positive thing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cablevision hopes to allow customers to buy things with their remote controls early next year.

But is this right? Do things get better or worse as we get richer? Here the Stockholm declaration is ambiguous.

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.

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.

The other thing that people do forget is that these are medicines, so they do have an impact.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When I teach in classroom, we often end up talking about things like success and what leads to success.

And to start things off, I think what we need to do is consider a definition.

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..

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.

It arouses students' interest in things around them.

But it is another thing to have a supply of trained talent that could let you carry out this promise.

And Brandston knows a thing or two about lighting, being the man who illuminated the Statue of Liberty.

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.

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.

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.

"The dangerous thing about lying is people don't understand how the act changes us," says Dan Ariely, behavioural psychologist at Duke University.

"The thing you are searching for is reputation," says titus Brown, a genomics (基因组学) researcher at the University of California,Davis.

And Brandston knows a thing or two about lighting, being the man who illuminated the Statue of liberty.

And over time, its members have learned a thing or two about responsibility.

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.

At any volume, there's still such a thing as too much information.

Barely anyone notices and no one says a thing.

But here's the thing: I loved my "lower-tier" university.

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.

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.

For decades, researchers and law enforcement agencies have tried to build a machine that will do the same thing.

For one thing, stereotypes are often accurate.

For one thing, they are reliable and so far as they are based on unbiased samples.

I found that this ability to instantly shift my attention was often a good thing, like when passing time on public transportation.

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.

It's a rare thing for anybody to be able to change who they really are.

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. "

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

Skin may seem like a superficial human attribute, but it's the first thing we notice about anyone we meet.

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.

That's because rest and recovery are not the same thing.

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.

The key thing about consumer behaviour is that it's very much about how consumers change.

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.

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.

The same thing happens to people who stop moving, either mentally or physically.

The thing is, machines still have limitations when it comes to facial recognition.

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.

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.

Ultimately, that's the thing universities don't want to admit.

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

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.

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.

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.

A cat's mom also brings home things to her children to help them practice hunting.

A machine with a specific purpose has another quality, one that we usually associate with living things: a wish to preserve its own existence.

Another block to awareness is the obsession many of us have with naming things.

Another nice thing is that you learn both new words and their use unconsciously, meaning that you will tend to use the words learned/learnt this way in conversations almost automatically.

Another thing to do for safety is cleaning up.

Anytime you find the world waving a chair in your face, remember this: all you need to do is focus on one thing?

As long as one doesn't come to rely on it, wishing for a few good things to happen never hurts anybody.

At long last, in a comfortable home, with a generous pension, he should learn to take things easy.

Before people retire, they usually plan to do a lot of great things, which they never had time to do while working.

Being better at those things meant a greater chance of survival.

Berger explains in his new book, "contagious: why things catch on."

Bruce Pederson, the managing director of Bookcrossing, says, "the two things that change your life are the people you meet and books you read."

But like so many other things, it is only too much stress that does you harm.

But one thing is certain, all people encounter mountains in their life.

But the only thing that wasn't very fun about it was that he could catch many fish while I couldn't catch anything.

But there are still a few things I need to do before I go.

But we have to wait in line to pay for these things we need.

Children may have greater ability to figure out things than scientists.

Common sense suggests it was a good thing for parents to get involved because "children with good academic success do have involved parents", admitted Robinson.

Cover the things that burn easily.

Every day in our work, we are inspired by the people we meet doing extraordinary things to improve the world.

Every month the magazine introduces afresh new topic with articles, experimentsand creative things to make — the magazine.

Farmers in many countries are also adapting like this—either by growing new produce, or by growing the same things differently.

For days the kids have been looking for others we can help! things would have played out so differently if I had simply said, "No, we really don't have money to give more."

Great things happen when you step out of your comfort zone, and you would be surprised on how many chances exist if you just ask.

Great! One more thing, can you tell me your opening hours?

Having interesting things to think about also helps.

He advised him to slow down and take things easy.

He keeps telling us things they do together.

Here are the top 5 things nobody told me about college.

His strange habit makes sense when you consider that he's an environmental scientist who studies how to reduce litter, including things that fall off garbage trucks as they drive down the road.

How we understand things has a lot to do with what we feel.

However, these things are not common in small towns.

I didn't realize there are so many things to do.

I found the pre-holidays a good time to encourage young children to donate less-used things, and it worked.

I had advised the kids that while verbs may seem dull, most of the clever things they do throughout their lives will be verbs.

I liked facts, things that are concrete.

I soon noticed it wasn't a talent thing; it was practice.

I think it would be satisfaction of enjoying things with others, meaning when you give it to others, whether it's time, attention, a gift, anything, just those moments of sharing.

I thought, "why don't they just try rolling the things" a square could be turned into a rough sort of wheel by attaching wooden poles to its sides, he realized.

I wanted to be like my mom and know all of the things she knew.

I went to a workshop and gradually got good at making things with clay.

I'll go to the market tomorrow to buy all the things we'll need.

I'm always inspired by things of beauty and harmony.

In fact, tradition also refers to the things that have been developing and that are still being created.

Instead of trying to pick out a job for me, they helped me learn those things that led me to it.

Interruptions are one of the worst things to deal with while you're trying to get work done.

It also asked mothers about the challenges they face, with 80 percent making emotional demand as the hardest thing about motherhood.

It can do things such as reminding an elderly family member to take medicine or taking family photos.

It could be anything―gardening, cooking, music, sports—but whatever it is, make sure it's a relief from daily stress rather than another thing to worry about.

It turned out that among other things, he was an eighty-year-old writer.

It turns out that just looking at green,growing things can reduce stress,lower blood pressure,and put people into a better mood.

It was a fun thing but I was scared from the start.

It's not a very nice thing at time.

Jane's grandmother had wanted to write a children's book for many years, but one thing or another always got in the way.

Keep in mind that in a fifteen-minute office hour which is how long these things usually last, two or three questions are usually the most you'll have time to discuss.

Keep in mind that they do the things they do because they care about you.

Leaving the less important things until tomorrow is often acceptable.

Like many things in life, it's an ongoing process, and the best part of the process is that there's enough room for improvement, which means you'll just keep getting better and better.

Listening to music at home is one thing, going to hear it being performed live is quite another.

Machines with specific purposes are associated with living things partly because they might be able to prevent themselves from being destroyed.

Making things worse are state laws that make it too easy to opt out of what are supposed to be required vaccines for all children entering kindergarten.

Many of the things we now benefit from would not be around but for thomas edison.

Many western companies have tried to imitate such asian ways of doing things, which are based on general agreement.

Material thing from me and left me torn bare, an empty page at the end of a partly written book.

Meanwhile, things that you might expect to discourage spending— "bad" tables, crowding, high prices — don't necessarily.

Memory is sometimes a tricky thing.

My/his/the grandfather is still busy doing meaningful things.

I'm not suggesting you ignore problems, or that you pretend things are better than they are, but simply that you learn to allow things to be as they are— at least most of the time, and especially when it's not a really big deal.

Nasa is worried about two things: recovery time once astronauts return home, and, more importantly, how to maintain strength and fitness for the two and a half years or more that it would take to make a round-trip to mars.

Never at a loss for words, I tried to find things in my life that might qualify for growth.

Nicholas left Grylls a very deep impression because he did the right things in the dangerous situation.

No, they will tell you the same thing, in a worse way.

Not knowing how much longer he could last, Nicholas did the only thing he could — he huddled in his cave and slept.

On his 80th birthday, I sent him a letter, noting the things we all should be thankful for — good health, good friends and good outcomes.

On the street or in the park, she had only one thing on her mind: squirrels! She was so joyous that even on the worst days, she could make me smile.

One of the best things you can do any time in the semester is go see the professor.

One of the easiest things in the world is to become a fault-finder.

One of the first things maxime used to do with Shelly-Ann was taking her to the track, and she was ready to sacrifice everything.

One of the things that was consistently negative was parents' help with homework.

One thing is certain: the truth about love is not yet set in stone.

One thing is clear for these larger animals, staying transparent is an active process.

One thing is for certain—Larry went above and beyond the call of duty by getting so close to the burning vehicle! His efforts most likely saved the woman's life.

Open our mind to new things and ideas.

People speak very fast and it's hard to get them to repeat things.

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

Perhaps one of the most important things you can do as a good neighbor is to keep your property neat, clean, and in good repair.

Robinson assessed parental involvement performance and found one of the most damaging things a parent could do was to punish their children for poor marks.

Seeing the positive side of things doesn't mean you're ignoring what happened.

Several important things happened that day.

Several years ago I received a letter from seventeen-year-old kerry, who described herself as a world-class fault-finder, almost always bothered by things.

So no one throws things onto the stage in Australia?

Some people avoid small talk because they dislike discussing things like traffic or weather.

Evidence shows that thousands of teachers and parents know a good thing when they see it and recommend Toknow to their friends.

Talking to someone you don't know is not the easiest thing to do! some experts say with more practice, small talk does get easier.

Tell the person you're sorry and explain that you have a million things to do and then ask if the two of you can talk at a different time.

That was when things started to change.

That's bad news for the environment – and our wallets – as these outdated devices consume much more energy than the news ones that do the same things.

The early morning sees the arrival of large trucks with tomatoes—official fight-starters get things going by casting tomatoes at the crowd.

The end result is that we feel like we can't focus or that we're focused on the wrong things, and so we take less action, make less progress, and stay the same when we could be improving.

Only when humanity began to get its food in a more productive way was there time for other things.

In facts, the more new things we try- the more we step outside our comfort zone - the more inherently creative we become, both in the workplace and in our personal lives.

Habits are a funny thing.

Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.

Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that “the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight.

Of course, it is precisely these superfluous things that define human culture and ultimately what it is to be human.

First, they can shut things down without suffering much in the way of consequences.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

“We’re doing these things because we know they help people stay off benefits and help those on benefits get into work faster” Help? Really? On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with “reforms” to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.

Second, it is surely a good thing that the money and attention come to science rather than go elsewhere.

As much as some scientists may complain about the new awards, two things seem clear.

It allows us to have perspective on our lives - the ability to not take ourselves too seriously, to laugh at ourselves, to see the bigger picture, and to see that things will work out.

It’s a really hard thing to do and it’s a tremendous luxury that BuzzFeed doesn’t have a legacy business,” Peretti remarked.

But we’re going to have questions like that where we have things we’re doing that don’t make sense when the market changes and the world changes.

But even if you accept Friedman’s premise and regard corporate social responsibility( ' , CSR) policies as a waste of shareholders’ money, things may not be absolutely clear-cut.

It measures things that do not matter and misses things that do.

It does not include important factors such as environmental quality or education outcomes – all things that contribute to a person’s sense of well-being.

"It's a really hard thing to do and it's a tremendous luxury that BuzzFeed doesn't have a legacy business," Peretti remarked.

"The first thing needed for innovation is a fascination with wonder," says Dawna Markova, author of "The Open mind".

As we grow up, we learn to control our emotions so they are manageable and don't dictate our behaviors, which is in many ways a good thing.

But as adults we also have the luxury of being able to control our own diaries and it's important that we schedule in time to enjoy the thing we love.

But it's not just a gender thing.

But the headlong push into bachelor's degrees for all—and the subtle devaluing of anything less—misses an important point: That's not the only thing the American economy needs.

But, the wonderful thing about failure is that it's entirely up to us to decide how to look at it.

For one thing, conversations about wildfires need to be more inclusive.

For one thing, it is very slow compared to the pace of change within the digital economy.

It's not necessarily a bad thing, but depending on the school, it can be costly to make up credits after switching too late in the game.

sit down to read and the flywheel of work-related thoughts keeps spinning一or else you're so exhausted that a challenging book's the last thing you need.

So remember the little details of the people you met or you talked with; perhaps the places they have been to the place they want to go, the things they like, the thing the hate—whatever you talk about.

This is why researchers generally regard so-called moral guilt, in the right amount, to be a good thing.

Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn't have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the

When you remember such thing you can automatically become investor in their wellbeing.

词组搭配

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

a film in which he does the bad-guy thing.
一部他在里面饰演坏人的影片。

do things to

(informal)have a powerful emotional effect on

(非正式)对…施加显著影响；使受震撼

it just does things to me when we kiss.
我们亲吻时我兴奋不已。

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

Why hadn't he arranged to see her at the house? For one thing, it would have been warmer.
他当时为什么不安排在屋里见她？首先，屋里会比较暖和。

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

she had a thing about men who wore glasses.
她特喜欢（或讨厌）戴眼镜的男人。

—— 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

physical attraction was one thing, love was quite another.
外表的吸引是一回事，爱情可就另当别论。

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

What had he been thinking about? A kitten, of all things!.
他一直在想什么呢？竟然是一只小猫。

(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

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。”

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。”

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。

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。

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？

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。

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！

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。

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！

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？

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。

...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。

...John W. Campbell, author of 'The Thing From Another World.': 约翰·W.坎贝尔，《外星来客》的作者