so to speak

可以这么说可以这样说可以说是

so to speak 的定义

  1. Phrased like this, in a manner of speaking, as in He was, so to speak, the head of the family, although he was only related by marriage to most of the family members. This term originally meant “in the vernacular” or “lower-class language” and was used as an aristocrat's apology for stooping to such use. [Early 1800s] Also see as it were.

so to speak 近义词

so to speak

等同于 as if

so to speak

等同于 as though

更多so to speak例句

  1. But so-called jungle primaries are notoriously hard to predict or poll.
  2. So we do demand justice and we do speak up and make demands.
  3. Or has the see and hear and speak-no-evil stance of the Republican House persuaded him that he is in the clear?
  4. What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.
  5. “We met the smuggler in the train station; he came to speak with us about the services he provided,” Yazbek says.
  6. “Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
  7. Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
  8. Many so-called "humming tones" are given for practice, but in accepting them observe whether the foregoing principle is obeyed.
  9. Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
  10. All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.