
conj. 不能与…相比;对…无足轻重
Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.
没有他们,今天还有谁对你说些什么呢?
But it would be nothing to the amazement they'd experience when they opened the hood and found out what the engine had turned into.
但是,如果他们打开引擎盖看看里面发生了什么的话,这也许并不值得惊异了。
Note that there may be nothing to delete, if the coordinates were already null or invalid; but that does not constitute an error.
注意,如果坐标值原来就是null或无效的,那么可能没有要删除的东西;但是,这不会造成错误。
If a company doesn't know what they're trying to accomplish, then there will be nothing to measure and no way to determine success.
如果一个公司不知道他们需要达成的目标,那么也就没有衡量的标准判断社交媒体的使用是否成功了。
So there would be nothing to stop your friends uploading photos of you on your stag do, skinny-dipping, or at graduation celebrations.
如果你的朋友要上传你在单身聚会或毕业典礼上的照片或你的裸泳照,就没有任何办法可以阻止了。
"be nothing to"是英语中常见的表达方式,其含义根据语境可分为两类:
字面否定关系
表示事物之间不存在关联性或重要性。例如:"The rumors are nothing to me"(这些谣言与我无关。牛津词典指出,该用法强调主体对某事物缺乏情感联系或实际影响,常见于口语表达(来源:Oxford Learner's Dictionaries)。
比较级否定
在比较结构中表示"远不及",例如:"His pain is nothing to what the patients endured"(他的痛苦远不及患者承受的。剑桥词典解释,这种用法通过对比突显程度差异,多用于书面语境(来源:Cambridge Dictionary)。
该短语的引申义在文学作品中常体现情感疏离,如《双城记》名句"To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy..."即运用类似表达(来源:Collins Dictionary)。实际使用时需注意搭配介词,如"be nothing to do with"表示"与...无关",属于固定搭配。
根据权威词典和常见用法,"be nothing to" 在不同语境中有以下含义:
表示「对某人/事无关紧要」或「缺乏某物」,具体分为两种结构:
be nothing to + 某人
指「对某人来说不重要」或「与某人无关」。
例句:
It's nothing to do with me.(这与我无关)
Whether I go or not has nothing to do with your decision.(我去不去和你的决定无关)
nothing to + 动词原形
表示「没有可…的东西」,强调缺乏资源或条件。
例句:
They had nothing to eat but stale bread.(他们只有陈面包可吃)
I've got nothing to lose.(我没什么可失去的)
比较意义
表示「与…相比微不足道」,常见于口语。
例句:
The pain was nothing to what he suffered before.(这种疼痛与他之前的遭遇相比不算什么)
固定短语
建议通过权威词典(如海词词典)或例句加深理解。
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