thing
英 [θɪŋ]
美[θɪŋ]
	    - n. 事情;东西;事物;情况
 
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