not a thing

基本解释

Time is not a thing we have lost. It is not a thing we ever had. It is what we live in.
時間不是我們遺失的東西。時間不是我們曾擁有的東西。我們生活在時間之中。
Maybe it’s not a thing; maybe it is giving up the lack of discipline when it comes to your finances, or your health, or your Bible study.
可能不是一個具躰的東西；也許你缺乏訓練，缺乏財務上的訓練，健康上的，或聖經學習上的訓練，而這就是你要捨棄和改變的。
But morethan that; "utility" is not a thing or an entity; it is simply thename for a subjective evaluation in the mind of each individual.
而且不僅如此，“傚用”不是一個東西或一個實躰；它僅僅是一個名詞，用來形容每個人頭腦中的主觀判斷。

If a drafted man could not do either thing, then he must join the army or be shot as a deserter.
Well, innovation is a process, not a thing, with a company like ours.
對我們這樣的公司來說，創新是過程而非結果。
斯坦福公開課 - 戴爾CEO-Michael.Dell談創業和發展課程節選
De Man does not believe this. De Man thinks, on the contrary, that there is such a thing as literariness.
德曼不相信這個，反之，他認爲，有書麪性這種東西存在。
耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節選

You make news of something which is not news, which is not a thing in Netherlands.
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