| 单词 | do |
| 释义 | 1. auxiliary verb uses2. other verb uses3. noun uses do (də , STRONG duː ) auxiliary verb uses Word forms: does ( WEAK dəz , STRONG dʌz ), doing , did , done Do is used as an auxiliary with the simple present tense. Did is used as an auxiliary with the simple past tense. In spoken English, negative forms of do are often shortened, for example do not is shortened to don't and did not is shortened to didn't.1. auxiliary verb A1 Do is used to form the negative of main verbs, by putting 'not' after 'do' and before the main verb in its infinitive form, that is the form without 'to'. They don't want to work. I did not know Jamie had a knife. It doesn't matter if you win or lose. 2. auxiliary verb A1 Do is used to form questions, by putting the subject after 'do' and before the main verb in its infinitive form, that is the form without 'to'. Do you like music? What did he say? Where does she live? 3. auxiliary verb A2 Do is used in question tags. You know about Andy, don't you? I'm sure they had some of the same questions last year, didn't they? 4. auxiliary verb A2 You use do when you are confirming or contradicting a statement containing 'do', or giving a negative or positive answer to a question. 'Did he think there was anything suspicious going on?'—'Yes, he did.' 'Do you have a metal detector?'—'No, I don't.' They say they don't care, but they do. [AUX] 5. auxiliary verb A2 Do is used with a negative to tell someone not to behave in a certain way. Don't be silly. Don't touch that! 6. auxiliary verb B2 Do is used to give emphasis to the main verb when there is no other auxiliary. [emphasis] Veronica, I do understand. You did have your phone with you. 7. auxiliary verb Do is used as a polite way of inviting or trying to persuade someone to do something. [politeness] Do sit down. Do help yourself to another drink. 8. verb B1 Do can be used to refer back to another verb group when you are comparing or contrasting two things, or saying that they are the same. I make more money than he does. [VERB] One day she will walk out, just as her own mother did. [VERB] I had fantasies, as do all mothers, about how life would be when my girls were grown. Girls receive less health care and less education in parts of the developing world than do boys. 9. verb B1 You use do after 'so' and 'nor' to say that the same statement is true for two people or groups. You know that's true, and so do I. [VERB noun] We don't forget that. Nor does he. [VERB noun] Her actions and thoughts became distorted. So did her behavior. [VERB noun] do (duː ) other verb uses Word forms: does ( WEAK dəz , STRONG dʌz ), doing , did , done do is used in a large number of expressions which are explained under other words in the dictionary. For example, the expression 'easier said than done' is explained at 'easy'.1. verb A1 When you do something, you take some action or perform an activity or task. Do is often used instead of a more specific verb, to talk about a common action involving a particular thing. For example you can say 'do your teeth' instead of ' brush your teeth'. I was trying to do some work. [VERB noun] After lunch Elizabeth and I did the washing up. [VERB noun] Dad does the garden. [VERB noun] Let me do your hair. [VERB noun] Synonyms: perform, work, achieve, carry out 2. verb A1 Do can be used to stand for any verb group, or to refer back to another verb group, including one that was in a previous sentence. What are you doing? [VERB noun] So tell me what this molecule does that makes it special. [VERB noun] Think twice before doing anything. [VERB noun] A lot of people got arrested for looting so they will think before they do it again. [VERB noun] I'm glad they gave me my money back, but I think they did this to shut me up. [VERB noun] The first thing is to get some more food. When we've done that we ought to start again. [VERB noun] Brian counted to twenty and lifted his binoculars. Elena did the same. He turned towards the open front door but, as he did so, she pushed past him. [V so] Synonyms: cheat, trick, con [informal], skin [slang] 3. verb B2 You can use do in a clause at the beginning of a sentence after words like 'what' and 'all', to give special emphasis to the information that comes at the end of the sentence. [emphasis] All she does is complain. [VERB noun] What I should do is go and see her. [VERB noun] The best that can be done is to make things as difficult as possible. [VERB noun] Synonyms: behave, act, conduct yourself, deport yourself 4. verb A1 If you do a particular thing with something, you use it in that particular way. I was allowed to do whatever I wanted with my life. [VERB noun + with] What did he do with the thirty pounds? [VERB noun with noun] The technology was good, but you couldn't do much with it. [V amount + with] Synonyms: present, give, show, act 5. verb A2 If you do something about a problem, you take action to try to solve it. They refuse to do anything about the real cause of crime: poverty. [VERB noun + about] Well, what are you going to do about it? [V n about n] If an engine packs in, the engineer can't do anything about it until the plane has landed. [V amount + about] 6. verb B2 If an action or event does a particular thing, such as harm or good, it has that result or effect. A few bombs can do a lot of damage. [VERB noun] It'll do you good to take a rest. [VERB noun noun] The publicity did her career no harm. [VERB noun noun] 7. verb B1+ You can use do to talk about the degree to which a person, action, or event affects or improves a particular situation. The current reforms will do much to create these conditions. [V amount to-inf] They did everything they could to help us. [V amount to-inf] He said that the opposition had done everything possible to sabotage the elections. [V amount to-inf] Such incidents do nothing for live music's reputation. [V amount + for] I'd just tried to do what I could for Lou. [VERB noun + for] 8. verb You can talk about what someone or something does to a person to mean that they have a very harmful effect on them. I saw what the liquor was doing to her. [VERB + to] You overlook the pressure you're under and what it does to you. [VERB to noun] 9. verb A1 If you ask someone what they do, you want to know what their job or profession is. What does your father do? [VERB noun] He knew what he wanted to do from the age of 14. [VERB noun] 10. verb A1 If you are doing something, you are busy or active in some way, or have planned an activity for some time in the future. Are you doing anything tomorrow night? [VERB noun] 'What are you doing for Christmas?' Ella asked. 'We're going to Aunt Molly's.'. [VERB noun] There is nothing to do around here. [VERB noun] 11. verb B1+ If you say that someone or something does well or badly, you are talking about how successful or unsuccessful they are. Connie did well at school and graduated with honours. [VERB adverb] Out-of-town superstores are doing well. [VERB adverb] How did I do? [VERB adverb] 12. verb A2 If a person or organization does a particular service or product, they provide that service or sell that product. [mainly British] They provide design services and do printing and packaging. [VERB noun] They do a good range of herbal tea. [VERB noun] 13. verb B1+ You can use do when referring to the speed or rate that something or someone achieves or is able to achieve. They were doing 70 miles an hour. [VERB amount] His catamaran will do 37 knots. [VERB amount] 14. verb A2 If you do a subject, author, or book, you study them at school or college. [spoken] I'd like to do maths at university. [VERB noun] 'So you did 'Macbeth' in the first year?'—'No, in the first year we did 'Julius Caesar'.' 15. verb If you do a particular person, accent, or role, you imitate that person or accent, or act that role. Gina does accents extremely well. [VERB noun] 16. verb You can use do to say that you are able or unable to behave in a particular way. [informal] 'Can't you be nicer to your sister?'—'Nice? I don't do nice'. [VERB adjective] 17. verb If someone does drugs, they take illegal drugs. I don't do drugs. [VERB noun] I saw him doing ecstasy in the toilets. [VERB noun] 18. verb If you say that something will do or will do you, you mean that there is enough of it or that it is of good enough quality to meet your requirements or to satisfy you. Anything to create a scene and attract attention will do. [VERB] We need a win–a draw won't do at all. [VERB] 'What would you like to eat?'—'Anything'll do me, Eva.' [VERB noun] 19. could do with phrase B2 If you say that you could do with something, you mean that you need it or would benefit from it. I could do with a cup of tea. The range could do with being extended. 20. what did you do with phrase B2 You can ask someone what they did with something as another way of asking them where they put it. What did you do with that notebook? 21. what is sb/sth doing here phrase B2 If you ask what someone or something is doing in a particular place, you are asking why they are there. 'Dr Campbell,' he said, clearly surprised. 'What are you doing here?' What was he doing in Hyde Park at that time of the morning? 22. that will do convention If you say that will do to a child, you are telling them to stop behaving in the way that they are. 23. have/be to do with phrase If you say that one thing has something to do with or is something to do with another thing, you mean that the two things are connected or that the first thing is about the second thing. Mr Butterfield denies having anything to do with the episode. They were shouting at each other. It was something to do with money. That's none of your business, it has nothing to do with you. A lot of this has to do with power and greed. Phrasal verbs: do away with 1. phrasal verb To do away with something means to remove it completely or put an end to it. The long-range goal must be to do away with nuclear weapons altogether. [VERB PARTICLE PARTICLE noun] 2. phrasal verb If one person does away with another, the first murders the second. If you do away with yourself, you kill yourself. [informal] She thinks he may have done away with her sister. [VERB PARTICLE PARTICLE noun] do down phrasal verb If someone does you down, they try to make other people think that you are unpleasant or unsuccessful by criticizing you. [British, informal] Glover thinks that Smith did him down, perhaps out of envy. [VERB noun PARTICLE] do for phrasal verb [usually passive] If you say that you are done for, you mean that you are in a terrible and hopeless situation. [informal] We need his help or we're done for, dead and gone, lost. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE] do in phrasal verb To do someone in means to kill them. [informal] Whoever did him in removed a man who was brave as well as ruthless. [VERB noun PARTICLE] do out phrasal verb [usually passive] If a room or building is done out in a particular way, it is decorated and furnished in that way. [British] ...a room newly done out in country-house style. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE] do out of phrasal verb If you do someone out of something, you unfairly cause them not to have or get a particular thing that they were expecting to have. [informal] He complains that the others have done him out of his share. [VERB noun PARTICLE PARTICLE noun] do over 1. phrasal verb If you do a task over, you perform it again from the beginning. [US] If she had the chance to do it over, she would have hired a press secretary. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb If someone does a place over, they steal things or search the place and leave it very untidy. [British, informal] The door was open. They had done the place over. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 3. phrasal verb To do someone over means to hurt them badly, for example by hitting or kicking them. [British, informal] We could get someone to do him over, couldn't we? [VERB noun PARTICLE] do up 1. phrasal verb B1+ If you do something up, you fasten it. Mari did up the buttons. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Keep your scarf on, do your coat up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb B2 If you do up an old building, you decorate and repair it so that it is in a better condition. [British] Nicholas has bought a barn in Provence and is spending August doing it up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 3. phrasal verb [usually passive] If you say that a person or room is done up in a particular way, you mean they are dressed or decorated in that way, often a way that is rather ridiculous or extreme. ...Beatrice, usually done up like the fairy on the Christmas tree. [be VERB-ed preposition/adverb] She's had her blond hair done up exactly like Jackie's. [have n V-ed P] do without 1. phrasal verb B2 If you do without something you need, want, or usually have, you are able to survive, continue, or succeed although you do not have it. We can't do without the help of your organisation. [VERB PARTICLE noun] We've had a bit more money and that, and the baby doesn't do without. [VERB PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb If you say that you could do without something, you mean that you would prefer not to have it or it is of no benefit to you. [informal] He could do without her rhetorical questions at five o'clock in the morning. [VERB PARTICLE noun] He could do without the awkward questions. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Like all teenagers there's one thing she'd rather do without–spots. [VERB PARTICLE noun] do (duː ) Word forms: dos 1. countable noun A do is a party, dinner party, or other social event. [mainly British, informal] A friend of his is having a do in Stoke. They always have all-night dos there. Synonyms: party, gathering, function, social 2. dos and don'ts phrase If someone tells you the dos and don'ts of a particular situation, they advise you what you should and should not do in that situation. Please advise me on the most suitable colour print film and some dos and don'ts. do. noun uses do. is an old-fashioned written abbreviation for ditto. Quotations: Do unto others what you would they should do unto you Collocations: do a disservice to I may also do a disservice to his audience, not all of whom buy into every word. The Sun But that's doing a disservice to a complex film that raises a host of moral issues. Times, Sunday Times Fair point, but probably doing a disservice to the many historical battle re-enactment societies out there. Times, Sunday Times It would do a disservice to voters. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He has done a disservice to the whole political world. Times, Sunday Times They'll do fine in dappled shade but the more sun they get the more the sugars in the leaf will build to trigger an autumn display. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Many investors with less exposure to commodities will have done fine, however, and there is no reason for those who've made paper losses to panic. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Wizards have to do homework and pass exams. Times, Sunday Times Then, with light fading, he would rush home to try to do homework from the morning school sessions. Times, Sunday Times They then rehearse and film their dance for the next episode before returning home to do homework. Times, Sunday Times They won't do homework for anything less than a skiing holiday. Times, Sunday Times I don't force them to do homework — it's their choice if they do it or not. The Sun I do housework and get his meals ready. The Sun We play-fight and laugh a lot, cook together and do housework together. The Sun I never thought of giving up those precious hours to do housework, so we probably lived in squalor. Times, Sunday Times She, being a writer, didn't work or do housework — that being both beneath her and a block to the creative process. Times, Sunday Times They can't cook and never do housework. The Sun So, everyone, do please double and treble check the numbers before you make any transfers - every time. Times, Sunday Times But if you are that way inclined, do please get in touch. Times, Sunday Times Do please stop looking at everybody else's behaviour and examine your own. Times, Sunday Times Do please consider getting a lasting power of attorney, too. Times, Sunday Times If so, do please let me know about it. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 做 Japanese: ･･･をする |
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