thing(s)
1.things在用作“情形”解的时候前面不可有the，下面各句里在things前面都不可加the：
- How are things?
- I hope things will improve soon.
- Then things grew worse.
- Things seem to be going well.
- He asked me how things looked.
- Things are mending.
- Things at the worst will mend. （即使最不好的情形，也会渐渐改善。）
- Things are the other way about. （情形恰恰相反。）
- Then things began to shape themselves more definitely. （当时形势开始变得更明朗了。）
- From them I learnt how things had gone at the hotel.
- Things are taking a turn for the better. （情形正在好转。）
2.things后面加上形容词作“…的一切事物”解。例如：I am not interested in things musical. She knows nothing about things French. 和When one beholds such beauty, one forgets all things earthly.
