1·It's not a thing. It's a human being!
这不是一件东西，这是一个人！
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Don't treat her like that—she's a person, not a thing!
别那样对待她，她是人，不是物件。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·That's very nice I'm not a thing.
太好了。我不是一个东西。
4·Time is not a thing we have lost.
时间不是我们遗失的东西。
5·Suffering in itself is not a thing to be offered.
苦难本身并不是一件堪以供奉的东西。
6·The Meghnadvadha, also, was not a thing of joy to us.
学叙事诗《云使》对我们来说，也不是一件快乐的事。
7·Nothing means not-a-thing, not a thing put there by thought.
无意味着空无一物，没有一件思想制造的东西。
8·The fact is, quality is not a thing; it is -- well, a quality.
事实上，质量不是一件事情；它就是质量。
9·However that was not a thing happened in US or in much of Western Europe.
但这不是发生在美国的，或者在西欧大部分国家。
10·Time is not a thing we have lost. It is not a thing we ever had. It is what we live in.
时间不是我们遗失的东西。时间不是我们曾拥有的东西。我们生活在时间之中。