(一般作 doings)the activities in which a particular person engages 活动 the latest doings of television stars. 电视明星们的最新活动。 ■(informal)excrement, especially that of a domestic animal (非正式)(尤指家养动物的)排泄物 ■[in sing.](informal)a beating or scolding (非正式)打;骂 someone had given her a doing. 有人揍了她一顿。
[mass noun]used to indicate that something is considered difficult to achieve 难做的事 it would take some doing to calm him down. 让他平静下来得花点心思。
(doings)[treated as sing. or pl.](informal, chiefly Brit.)used to refer to things when one has forgotten their name or when no one word easily covers them (非正式,主 英)那些玩意(用来指忘了名称或说不清楚的东西) the drawer where he kept the doings. 他放那些玩意的抽屉。
常用词组 be someone's doing
be the creation or fault of the person named 某人的作品(或过错) he looked at Lisa as though it was all her doing. 他看着莉萨,好像都是她的错。