| 单词 | thank |
| 释义 | thank I. 1. thanks plural < express my thanks > 2. obsolete < if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? — Lk 6:33 (Authorized Version) > 3. a. < never a thank was accorded any for always battling … the foemen — W.B.Smith & Walter Miller > — usually used in plural; often used in plural in an utterance containing no verb and serving as an ordinarily courteous and somewhat informal expression of gratitude < thanks > < many thanks > < thanks a lot > < thanks for helping me > < no, thanks > b. thanks plural • - no thanks to - thanks to II. transitive verb 1. a. < thanked her uncle for the birthday present > — used in the phrase thank you with a first person subject or without any subject as the most polite formula for expressing gratitude on the part of the speaker or writer or the group to which he belongs < thank you very much for the loan > < I thank you for your music — Shakespeare > — used in such phrases as thank God, thank goodness, thank heaven usually without any subject to express gratitude or more often only pleasure or satisfaction on the part of the speaker or writer < thank God nobody was killed in the wreck > < the beds are all made, thank goodness > b. < whether we eat the food directly as the plant stored it or indirectly after some animal has converted it into meat or milk, we still have to thank the plant for it — J.B.Robson > < had only his inexperience to thank for his failure to get ahead > c. < I'll thank you to open the window > < I will thank you to mind your own business > d. < a textbook that thousands of teachers will thank the author for writing > 2. < ten thousandfold the favor I shall thank — Robert Browning > intransitive verb • - thank one's stars |
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