-ing
短语a. 表示行为、状态、情况等；表示...行业、...学、...法；表示总称及材料 与...有关的东西
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1.
Used to form nouns or noun-like words (or elements of noun phrases) from verbs, denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action.
As true nouns.
My hearing is not good.
I have had several meetings with him.
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2.
Used to form nouns or noun-like words (or elements of noun phrases) from verbs, denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action.
As gerunds.
Smoking marijuana cigarettes daily is bad for your health.
She has a habit of sleeping late.
I like meeting people.
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3.
Used to form nouns denoting materials or systems of objects which are used or employed in an action, or considered collectively.
Roofing is material that is used to roof.
Clothing is material with which one is clothed.
The piping is a system of pipes considered collectively.
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Used to form present participles of verbs.
著
着
正在
紧
住
Rolling stones gather no moss.
My new cabin, which is going to look over the lake, is getting a brand new roof this winter.
I wondered what time the play was starting.
Anybody touching this wire will get a deadly shock.
When it occurred, I was flying to New York a great deal.
We were boogieing from midnight until three o’clock in the morning.
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Forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as in placenames, patronymics or diminutives; -ite.
习语Ealing, Dorking, Reading, Worthing
Browning, Channing, Ewing
Middle English *bunt + -ing → bunting
skill + -ing → shilling
fourth + -ing → farthing
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Forming nouns having a specified quality, characteristic, or nature; of the kind of
sweet + -ing → sweeting
white + -ing → whiting
geld + -ing → gelding
词源
Inherited from Middle English -ing, -yng, -ynge, from Old English -ing, -ung (“-ing”, suffix forming nouns from verbs), from Proto-West Germanic *-ingu, *-ungu, from Proto-Germanic *-ingō, *-ungō (“-ing”). Cognates Cognate with Scots -in, -in', -ing (“-ing”), Yola -een (“-ing”), Saterland Frisian -enge (“-ing”), Dutch -ing (“-ing”), German and Luxembourgish -ung (“-ing”), Danish -ing, -ning (“-ing”), Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish -ing (“-ing”), French -ange (“-ing”). Unrelated to Brahui -اِنْگ (-iṅg, “a suffix used to form infinitive or verbal noun from the base verb; -ing”).
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