| 单词 | to be doing | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be doing  a.    to be doing (with passive sense): to be in the course of being done, to be happening. Now chiefly in negative contexts: cf. there is nothing doing at  Phrases 2b; also without auxiliary verb (cf. nothing doing at  Phrases 2c). ΚΠ a1400						 (a1325)						    Cursor Mundi 		(Vesp.)	 l. 26812  				Þat þere er dedis doand neu, þat þai agh sare wit resun reu. 1526    Bible 		(Tyndale)	 Coloss. iv. 9  				All thynges which are adoynge here. a1591    H. Smith Wks. 		(1867)	 II  				Sin, which is here expressed (while it is a-doing) to be, not bitter, but sweet. a1715    Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time 		(1724)	 I. 110  				While these things were doing. 1749    Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 7 May 		(1966)	 II. 428  				What is doing amongst my Acquaintance at London. 1847    J. J. Oswandel Notes Mexican War 		(1885)	 iv. 199  				This morning there is not much doing, except the soldiers are growling about our long delay at these quarters. 1855    T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 211  				The peal and flash of gun after gun gave notice, from three different parts of the valley at once, that murder was doing. 1891    T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxxiv. 187  				There is not much doing now, being New Year's Eve, and folks mops and brooms from what's inside 'em. 1907    Oakland 		(Calif.)	 Tribune 6 Oct. (Sporting section) 9/3  				Nothing doing in the first round. Little doing in the second round. 1944    Ld. Alanbrooke Diary 26 Aug. in  War Diaries 		(2001)	 585  				Attended COS again, but not much doing. 1986    P. Barker Century's Daughter xi. 192  				Stephen was already wondering why he's come. ‘Not a lot doing,’ he said. 2001    C. Glazebrook Madolescents iii. 13  				I'm not involved in..embalming and that, but I like to watch if there's not much doing. < as lemmas  | 
	
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