喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can think of 'nothing' as pointing at an empty space and saying 'there's not one single thing there' — a clean zero. Everything else 'nothing' does grows from that zero: zero money (free, or worthless), zero importance (no big deal), zero connection (none of my business), and a whole crowd of fixed phrases that lean on 'a complete blank' to push back hard — to refuse, to deny, to insist there's absolutely no difference, or to flip around and stress that something really IS the case.

可以想成「nothing」是指著一塊空地說「那裡一樣東西都沒有」——乾乾淨淨的一個零。它後面所有的用法都是從這個零長…更多收起可以想成「nothing」是指著一塊空地說「那裡一樣東西都沒有」——乾乾淨淨的一個零。它後面所有的用法都是從這個零長出來的：零塊錢（免費，或不值錢）、零分量（沒什麼大不了）、零關聯（不關我的事），還有一大群固定說法都靠著「整片空白」來用力反推——拒絕、否認、強調根本沒兩樣，或者反過來強調某件事「正是如此」。

原始詞典資料9 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。

nothingpron/ˈnʌθɪŋ/

  • 1

    Not any thing; no thing.

    • Don't just say nothing. Tell me what's going on.
    • Nothing bad will happen, will it?
  • 2

    An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.

nothingnoun/ˈnʌθɪŋ/

  • 1

    Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.

    • - What happened to your face? - It's nothing.
    • Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths.
  • 2

    A trivial remark especially in the term sweet nothings.

  • 3

    A nobody (insignificant person).

nothingadv/ˈnʌθɪŋ/

  • 1

    archaicNot at all; in no way.

    • Nothing too much out of the ordinary.
    • Nothing dismayed, I repeated my query.

nothingadj/ˈnʌθɪŋ/

  • 1

    Completely unimportant.

    • Dallas scored on what had seemed until then like a nothing play.
  • 2

    Lacking effort or commitment.

    • The cricketer played a nothing shot.

nothingintj/ˈnʌθɪŋ/

  • 1

    Never mind; it's not important; forget what I said.

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。