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Goings-on are the things that are happening — but not ordinary things. The word points to events that feel strange, interesting, a bit secret, or not quite honest, and sometimes against the law. It is a casual, slightly nosy word, the kind a neighbour or a newspaper uses when there is a scandal to talk about. You cannot count one going-on; it stays plural. Though actually, it is not always a crime. A loud party next door can be the goings-on at number 12, with a raised , not a police report. It always carries a little side-look: something is up.
那些蹊蹺(或見不得人)的事
組成The plural of going on — the things that are going on, treated as a noun.
同家族的字
- going onthe phrasal verb for events that are happening
原始詞典資料1 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。
goings-onnoun
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Occurrences; things that go on, occur, or happen; events; activities.
- She sent a long letter detailing all the recent goings-on in her life.
- Enkidu is appalled at such goings-on and rises immediately to go to Uruk.
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。