pron.
- 無事;無物;沒什麼There is nothing on the table.
桌上什麼都沒有。
He knew absolutely nothing.他什麼也不知道。
n.
- 微不足道的事(或人)His latest play is nothing.
他的新戲一文不值。
ad.
- 一點也不,並不Your approach to teaching differs nothing from hers.
你的教學方法同她的教學方法並無不同之處。
片語
all to nothing
- 百分之百的;肯定的It is all to nothing that we will succeed.
我們肯定會成功。
nothing to
- 對……來說無足輕重John is nothing to her.
約翰對她來說無足輕重。
- 遠不如Our losses are nothing to theirs.
我們的損失遠不能與他們的相比。
come to nothing
- 失敗Their experiments came to nothing in the end.
他們的實驗以失敗告終。
for nothing
- 免費I got the typewriter for nothing; a friend just gave it to me.
我免費得到了這臺打字機,是一位朋友送給我的。
- 徒然All the work has been done for nothing.
所有的工作都白做了。
- 無端They often quarrel for nothing.
他們經常無端爭吵。
go for nothing
- 沒有結果A whole year's hard work has all gone for nothing.
整整一年的辛苦全部化為烏有。
have nothing to do with
- 與……無關We have nothing to do with him.
我們與他沒有什麼關係。
make nothing of
- 不理解I could make nothing of what she had said.
我不能理解她所說的話。
next to nothing
- 幾乎沒有She ate next to nothing at dinner.
晚飯時她幾乎什麼也沒吃。
no nothing
- 什麼也沒有After the floods, the local people lost everything; that is, they had no food, no clothing, no nothing.
洪水過後,當地的人喪失了一切,無衣無食,一無所有。
nothing but
- 只有;只不過Nothing but a miracle can save her life.
只有奇蹟才能挽救她的生命。
nothing if not
- 極其The present situation is nothing if not fine.
現在的形勢好極了。
nothing less than
- 與……一模一樣It was nothing less than a miracle.
那完全是個奇蹟。
nothing much
- 很少Is there anything interesting in the paper? Nothing much.
報紙上有什麼有趣的東西嗎?沒什麼。
nothing to write home about
- 不值得大書特書的事;並非重要之事This is nothing to write home about.
這並非什麼了不起的事。
Nothing succeeds like success.
- 一事成功,萬事順利。
Nothing venture, nothing have.
- 不入虎穴,焉得虎子。
there is nothing for it but to ...
- 除了……以外別無他法With the bridge destroyed, there was nothing for it but to swim across it.
橋被毀了,只得游過去。
think nothing of
- 把……視為平常He thought nothing of walking 40 miles.
走四十英里他並不當一回事。
to say nothing of
- 更不必說He had to support his seven children, to say nothing of his wife and parents.
他要養活自己的七個孩子,更不必說還有妻子和父母了。
辨析
同義:
n.無,沒有人,沒有任何東西
naught none nothing at all nothing on earth no such thing niln.不重要,瑣碎,無價值,無意義
unimportance insignificance triviality worthlessness pointlessness superficiality uselessness ineffectiveness valuelessness immateriality inessential trivia details fiddle-faddle bagatelle trinket trumpery gimcrack gewgaw whim-wham baublen.不重要(的人),無名(的人)
nobody unimportant person obscurity mediocrity insignificancy common man little man little guy lay figure pip-squeak small fryad.毫不,絕不
not at all in no degree never noway noways nowise by no means not nearly nowhere near on no account in no case反義:
pron.「無事;無物」的反義字
everything同義參見:
zero vacancy