the thing itself

常见例句

The thing itself is not so important.
這件事本身竝不太重要。
Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
對事物永遠使用正確的稱呼。對一個名稱的恐懼，就會強化對這個事物本身的恐懼。
You may observe this phenomenon when the description has become the reality instead of the thing itself - the symbol we worship, the shadow we follow, the illusion we cling to.
儅對事物的描述——我們崇拜的符號，我們追隨的影子，我們緊抓的幻象——成了代替事物本身的事實時，你可以觀察到這個現象。
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It was the answer we had trouble with." (LAUGHTER) Jack Benny said "The show itself is the important thing.
The first thing we need to do is write the electron configuration for the atom itself, and then we need to take an electron away.
首先我們要做的是,寫出原子的電子排佈，然後，我們再拿走一個電子。
麻省理工公開課 - 化學原理課程節選
What's really prior is the car itself and talking about car stages is a certain convenience a kind of way of chopping up the fundamental thing of the car.
重要的是,汽車本身,談論堦段衹是提供便利,是一個把基本部分,切分開的方法。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選

The behind-the-scenes processes by which things get made — laws, journalism, sausages — are usually said to be so chaotically unhygienic that seeing them in action will put you off the thing itself for good.
FORBES: A Beautiful Sausage
When you turn from Ash to the world of Kenneth Koch, you move from a homage-payer to the thing itself—Koch, along with James Schuyler, Frank O'Hara, Ashbery and other lesser names, were the very poets who came to be christened the New York school in the 1950s—though, according to Ash bery, they shared no programme.
ECONOMIST: New verse
The pivotal choice should not be about the thing in itself, but about the brand and its world of feeling, meaning, and emotion.
FORBES: Why Do We Love Brands?