核心畫面
You can picture 'everything' as one big bag that sweeps in every single thing and leaves nothing out. From that 'all of it, no exceptions' picture, the word stretches: sometimes the bag holds all of your life or situation, sometimes it swells until one person or one thing means the whole bag to you.
可以想成：everything 的核心畫面比較像「一個大袋子，把每一樣東西全掃進去，一個都不漏」。從這個「全部、沒有…更多收起
可以想成：everything 的核心畫面比較像「一個大袋子，把每一樣東西全掃進去，一個都不漏」。從這個「全部、沒有例外」的畫面出發，這個字會伸展：有時袋子裝的是你「整個人生或處境」，有時袋子脹大到——某一個人或某一樣東西，對你而言就等於這整個袋子。原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
everythingpron/ˈɛv(ə)ɹiˌθɪŋ/
- 1
All the things under discussion.
- I checked the list again and everything is done.
- Thank you for everything you've done for us.
- 2
Many or most things.
- A: What do you want to do at the amusement park? B: Everything!
- I did everything today – washed the dishes, cut the lawn, did the laundry.
- 3
A state of well-being (from all parts of the whole).
- Everything failed, didn't it?
- She wasn't feeling well this morning but now everything is fine.
- 4
Considerable effort.
- It took everything in me to resist the temptation to skip work on my birthday.
- 5
The most important thing.
- I can't believe I made it in time – timing is everything!
everythingverb/ˈɛv(ə)ɹiˌθɪŋ/
- 1
Used as a placeholder verb to encapsulate a set of related verbs or any action.
- ‘Hardly. We’re screened by every shrink in the kingdom. We're printed, weighed, photographed, everythinged. Selection for security takes a lifetime—one of our sayings,’ she added modestly.
- “ ‘You're right tonight, Boss Man,’ I said. ‘They’re laying it on us.’ “They outswung us, they out-everythinged us.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。