身無長物:without綜述

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

padding-bottom: 56.25%;">

                                                                                                             ——Benjamin Franklin

未受教育的天才，猶如礦中之銀。

                                                                                                             ——富蘭克林  本傑明

一、你知道without有幾種含義嗎？

adv.

1.在戶外

Without and beyond, the world lay in darkness, ignorance, and savagery.

在外面和較遠的一邊，世界處於黑暗、無知和野性中。

2.沒有或不顯示某事物

Do you want a room with a balcony or one without?

你想要帶陽臺的房間還是不帶陽臺的？

n.

3.外部；外面

prep.

1.無、未經歷或未顯出（某事物）

Poverty is not a sufficient cause of disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself is a disgrace

貧窮並不可恥，窮而不爭氣纔可恥。

2.在無（某人、某事物）的情況下；無（某人、某事物）

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

美而無德猶如花之無香。

3.不使用（某事物）

Dryland farming is a system of producing crops in arid and semiarid regions without the use of irrigation.

旱地耕作法是一種在乾旱或半乾旱土地上不使用灌溉方法生產作物的耕作制度。

4.與-ing形式連用，表示‘不、無、沒’等

It goes without saying that home is the warmest place in the world.

不用說，家是世界上最溫暖的地方。

5.【古】在（某物）之外；在…範圍以外

I think that without my flesh I will see God.

我想在皮肉滅絕之後，方可在肉體之外見得到神。

二、學會without的用法了嗎？來做個小測試吧

There is no garden ________its weeds.
沒有不長雜草的花園。