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🇺🇸 /θˈɪŋk/ 🇬🇧 /ˈθɪŋk/

noun 编号: T00914 牛津3000 BNC #64 COCA #56

think 的核心是“在脑中运转念头”：可以表示思考、想起或设想，也可以表示认为、猜想；作名词时指一次思考或斟酌。

💡 记忆钩子

把 think 想成脑中转动的一颗念头：先是把事情在脑中过一遍（思考），再把某人或某事放进脑中去设想（think of），最后形成一个看法或不太确定的判断（认为、猜想）。

📝 学习建议

先掌握“思考”和“认为”这两条主线，再区分 think about（思考某事）与 think of（想到、设想或认为）。
不要把 think 一律理解成“想要”；表示打算或有意做某事时只在特定结构中使用，日常表达通常要结合上下文判断。

📖 中文释义

noun

common 思考；考虑

📖 这里的 think 是一次把事情放在脑中仔细想想的过程，重点不是某个具体想法，而是“考虑一下”这个动作。

💡 常用结构是 have a think about + 名词或疑问内容，例如表示“我考虑一下再答复”。通常说 have a think，而不是把它当作普通可数名词随意复数化；这个用法偏口语和非正式。

UK uncountable usually

I'll have a think about your suggestion and let you know tomorrow.

我会考虑一下你的建议，明天告诉你。

thinks plural

verb

core 思考；琢磨

📖 指把问题或事情在脑中过一遍，努力理解它、分析它或决定下一步怎么做，是 think 最基本的动作义。

💡 常见结构是 think about + 事情，或 think + 疑问词从句。think about 强调持续考虑某事；不要在这里误用 think of 来表示同样的深入思考。

transitive

I need some time to think about your offer.

我需要一些时间考虑你的提议。

She thought carefully about what to do next.

她认真思考了下一步该怎么办。
common 心里想道

📖 表示某句话或念头在自己脑中出现，相当于在心里对自己说出来，但不一定真的开口。

💡 常见结构是 think, “……”或 I thought + 句子，用来引出当时脑中的话。叙述过去的内心话时常用 thought；它和 say 不同，不表示把话实际说给别人听。

transitive

I looked at the empty shelf and thought, “We need more books.”

我看着空书架，心想：“我们需要更多书。”
common 设法想出答案

📖 指围绕一个难题不断在脑中寻找办法或答案，重点是解决问题的思考过程。

💡 常见结构是 think about + 问题，或 think for + 一段时间。think 后面通常不能直接接表示问题的名词来表达“思考它”，应说 think about the problem；需要说明结果时，可接 how、what 等从句。

intransitive

He thought about the puzzle all evening but found no answer.

他整个晚上都在思考这道难题，却没有找到答案。
core 想到；设想为

📖 表示把某人或某事放进脑中去想象、联想到，或形成对它的概念；它把“脑中的念头”指向一个对象。

💡 常见结构是 think of + 人或事，表示想到、设想或把某人看作某种类型。think of 后面通常接名词或代词；若强调认真考虑一件事，通常改用 think about。

intransitive

When I think of summer, I think of long days by the sea.

我一想到夏天，就会想到在海边度过的漫长白天。

They think of her as a careful and reliable manager.

他们把她看作一位谨慎可靠的经理。
core 认为；看待

📖 表示从脑中的思考形成一个较明确的看法，把某事判断为某种情况。

💡 常见结构是 think + that 从句，口语中 that 常省略；也可说 think of + 名词 + as + 身份或性质。否定通常放在 think 前面，如 I don't think...，而不是机械地只否定后面的内容。

transitive

I think this plan will save us a lot of time.

我认为这个计划会为我们节省很多时间。

What do you think of the new design?

你觉得这个新设计怎么样？
common 猜想；相信

📖 表示根据现有信息作出并不完全确定的判断，相当于“我想、我猜、我认为可能是这样”。

💡 常见结构是 think + that 从句，或 think so 表示“这么认为”；可以用 I think 放在句首来委婉表达判断。它比确定无疑的断言语气弱，不能在所有场合直接替代 know。

transitive

I think the shop closes at six, but I'm not certain.

我想这家店六点关门，但我不确定。
rare 打算；有意

📖 指在脑中已经有做某事的打算；这种用法较旧，现代英语中通常用更明确的计划表达。

💡 旧式结构是 think to + 动词原形或 think to have + 过去分词。现代日常英语中，这种结构容易显得古旧或不自然，表示计划通常使用 plan to 或 be thinking of + 动名词。
rare 自以为；竟敢

📖 表示凭自己的判断冒昧地以为可以做某事，带有古旧或训诫意味。

💡 常见于古语或文学性的 think not to + 动词原形。现代会话中几乎不用这种结构，学习时只需能在旧文本中认出它即可。
common 你以为呢

📖 这是 think so 的省略说法，常用来表示“当然”“你还用问吗”，也可以带讽刺意味，具体语气取决于上下文和说话方式。

💡 常见形式是句末单独说 You think?，属于非正式口语。它不是普通的中性提问，可能显得挑衅或讥讽；正式交流中应改用完整问句。

abbreviation alt-of ellipsis informal

“Are you tired?” “You think?”

“你累吗？”“你说呢？”

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verb

rare 似乎；看起来

📖 这里不是主动思考，而是表示某种情况在说话者看来似乎如此；现代英语基本只在 methinks 中见到。

💡 通常只需识记固定形式 methinks + 从句。这个表达古旧且不适合普通会话，现代表达“似乎”通常使用 seem 或 appear。

thinks present,singular,third-person thinking participle,present thought participle,past thought past

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 14 组

bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation

同义词集: think

She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam

上位: alter, change, modify

recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; ; ; ;

同义词集: remember retrieve recall call back call up recollect think

I can't remember saying any such thing

I can't think what her last name was

can you remember her phone number?

Do you remember that he once loved you?

call up memories

反义: blank out, block, draw a blank, forget 下位: brush up, know, recognise, recognize, refresh, review 参见: remember, think back

be capable of conscious thought

同义词集: think

Man is the only creature that thinks

use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments

同义词集: think cogitate cerebrate

I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere

下位: associate, brainstorm, center, centre, chew over, colligate, concentrate, conclude, connect, contemplate, devote, evaluate, excogitate, focus, give, judge, link, link up, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, pass judgment, pay, plan, ponder, pore, rationalise, rationalize, reason, reason out, reflect, relate, rivet, ruminate, speculate, study, think over, tie in 参见: chew over, concoct, contemplate, dream up, excogitate, hatch, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think of, think over, think up

have or formulate in the mind

同义词集: think

think good thoughts

上位: cerebrate, cogitate

expect, believe, or suppose; ; ;

同义词集: think opine suppose imagine reckon guess

I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel

I thought to find her in a bad state

he didn't think to find her in the kitchen

I guess she is angry at me for standing her up

上位: anticipate, expect 下位: suspect

judge or regard; look upon; judge; ; ;

同义词集: think believe consider conceive

I think he is very smart

I believe her to be very smart

I think that he is her boyfriend

The racist conceives such people to be inferior

上位: evaluate, judge, pass judgment 下位: be known as, consider, esteem, feel, hold, know as, look on, look upon, reckon, regard, regard as, repute, rethink, see, take to be, think of, view

dispose the mind in a certain way

同义词集: think

Do you really think so?

上位: believe, conceive, consider

have in mind as a purpose; ; ;

同义词集: intend mean think

I mean no harm

I only meant to help you

She didn't think to harm me

We thought to return early that night

下位: aim, be after, design, plan, propose, purport, purpose

focus one's attention on a certain state;

同义词集: think

Think big

think thin

上位: center, centre, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet

ponder; reflect on, or reason about;

同义词集: think

Think the matter through

Think how hard life in Russia must be these days

上位: cerebrate, cogitate

decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting

同义词集: think

Can you think what to do next?

上位: cerebrate, cogitate

imagine or visualize;

同义词集: think

Just think--you could be rich one day!

Think what a scene it must have been!

上位: conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine

an instance of deliberate thinking

同义词集: think

I need to give it a good think

上位: advisement, deliberation, weighing

🌳 词源

主要源自古英语中表示“思考”的词；另有一条较早的词源表示“似乎、看起来”，如今几乎只保留在固定表达 methinks 中。

Proto-Indo-European *teng-der. Proto-Germanic *þankijaną Proto-West Germanic *þankijan Old English þenċan Middle English thinken English think From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken, thenchen, from Old English þenċan, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną (“to think”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel, know”). Cognate with Scots think, thynk (“to think”), North Frisian teenk, taanke, tanke, tånke (“to think”), Saterland Frisian toanke (“to think”), West Frisian tinke (“to think”), Dutch denken, dinken (“to think”), Afrikaans dink (“to think”), Low German denken, dinken (“to think”), German denken (“to think”), Danish tænke (“to think”), Swedish tänka (“to think”), Norwegian Bokmål tenke (“to think”), Norwegian Nynorsk tenkja (“to think”), Icelandic þekkja (“to know, recognise, identify, perceive”), Gothic þagkjan (“to think”), Latin tongeō (“know”).

🔄 变式

- imperat thinkest archaic thinketh archaic thinking present thinks plural thought 1st_sg thoughtest archaic thunk past

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