- 1趕流行的、跟得上時代的(現在聽起來有點過時,長輩在用的說法)。另一個還很活的意思是「頭腦清醒、狀況內」——像 I'm not with it today 就是「我今天很不在狀況」。
If someone is with-it, they follow what is new and fashionable — in clothes, music, ideas, technology — and it shows. 'His grandmother is surprisingly with-it: she's on TikTok.'
Now the honest part. This is an old-fashioned way of saying 'fashionable', and that gives it a funny twist: today it is used mostly BY older people, or ABOUT older people, and often with a smile. A young person in 2026 will not say 'that jacket is very with-it'. So the word is a small trap — using it does not make you sound modern; it makes you sound like someone's uncle trying to sound modern. That is fine if you want the joke.
There is a second, different meaning that is still fully alive: 'with it' meaning awake, alert, thinking clearly. 'Sorry, I'm not really with it this morning — I only slept three hours.' 'Grandad's ninety-two and still completely with it.' In this sense it usually has no and comes after the verb.
That is the pattern to remember: and before a noun tends to be the fashionable sense (a with-it young manager); no and after the verb is usually the alert sense — though the fashionable one also appears after the verb, so context decides.
with-it 指的是人跟得上新東西和流行趨勢,而且看得出來。例如「His grandmother is surprisingly with-it: she's on TikTok.」(他奶奶居然很潮,還在用 TikTok。)這是老派的說法,現在多半是長輩在用,或拿來說長輩,常帶著笑意。現在的年輕人不太會這樣講,所以用它不會讓你顯得時髦,反而像在努力裝潮的叔叔,想開玩笑的時候才值得用。
放在名詞前面時,會形成「with-it + 名詞」的句型,中間有連字號,多半是時髦的意思,像「a with-it young manager」。另一個還很活的意思是「頭腦清醒、狀況內」,常放在動詞後面、沒有連字號,例如「Sorry, I'm not really with it this morning — I only slept three hours.」(不好意思,我今天腦袋還不清醒,只睡了三個小時。)時髦的意思也會放在動詞後面,所以要看上下文才知道是哪一個。
組成Just the ordinary words 'with' and 'it', frozen together into one describing word. The 'it' does not point at anything in particular — it means something like 'whatever is going on now'. English does this fairly often: think of 'in' meaning fashionable, or 'out of it' meaning dazed.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
- with it
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。