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something

/suhm-thing/US // ˈsʌmˌθɪŋ //UK // (ˈsʌmθɪŋ) //

一些东西,某些东西,什么东西,某物

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Definitions

pron.代词 pronoun
  1. 1
    • : some thing; a certain undetermined or unspecified thing: Something is wrong there. Something's happening.
    • : an additional amount, as of cents or minutes, that is unknown, unspecified, or forgotten: He charged me ten something for the hat. Our train gets in at two something.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Informal. a person or thing of some value or consequence: He is really something! This writer has something to say and she says it well.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in some degree; to some extent; somewhat.
    • : Informal. to a high or extreme degree; quite: He took on something fierce about my tardiness.

Phrases

  • something else
  • something else again
  • something in the wind
  • something like
  • something of a
  • something or other
  • something tells me
  • something thing, a
  • buy something
  • get (have) something on someone
  • get something straight
  • have something against
  • hold something against
  • hold (something) over
  • look like something the cat dragged in
  • make something of
  • not put something past one
  • on the ball, have something
  • (something) or other
  • pull something on
  • start something
  • take something
  • you know something

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Something like fluoride, which is too small for normal filters, yanks away that feeling of agency.

  • Citizens, perhaps, need to feel like they can communicate something to science.

  • Why would “they” want to crush him just for attempting to buy something twenty years ago?

  • But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.

  • It was something ineffable and harder to define: freedom of speech.

  • He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.

  • There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.

  • There is, perhaps, in this childish suffering often something more than the sense of being homeless and outcast.

  • The beauty, the mystery,—this fierce sunshine or something—stir——' She hesitated for a fraction of a second.

  • And furthermore, I imagine something else about this—quite unlike the old Bible—I imagine all of it periodically revised.