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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

sort of

/sawrt/US // sɔrt //

某种程度上,某种程度上是,某种意义上说,有点

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting;nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
    • : character, quality, or nature: young people of a nice sort.
    • : an example of something that is undistinguished or barely adequate: He is a sort of poet.
    • : manner, fashion, or way: We spoke in this sort for several minutes.
    • : Printing. any of the individual characters making up a font of type.characters of a particular font that are rarely used.
    • : an instance of sorting.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to arrange according to sort, kind, or class; separate into sorts; classify: to sort socks; to sort eggs by grade.
    • : to separate or take from other sorts or from others: to sort the good from the bad;to sort out the children's socks.
    • : to assign to a particular class, group, or place: to sort people together indiscriminately.
    • : Scot. to provide with food and shelter.
    • : Computers. to place in order, as numerical or alphabetical, based on the contents of one or more keys contained in each record.Compare key.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Archaic. to suit; agree; fit.
    • : British Dialect. to associate, mingle, or be friendly.
  1. 1
    • : sort out, to evolve; develop; turn out: We'll just have to wait and see how things sort out.to put in order; clarify: After I sort things out here, I'll be able to concentrate on your problem.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adv.in a way
Synonyms
kind of样的,种,一种,一种的moderately中度,适度,中等,中等程度rather而是,相当于,颇为,相当slightly略有,稍微,稍微有点,略微somewhat有些,有点,有点儿,有一些to a degree在一定程度上,在某种程度上,一定程度上

Examples

  • Is it sort of evidence of the Gladwellian 10,000 hours theory?

  • I had enough experiences around languages that it just sort of happened.

  • When he was first incarcerated, he says some sort of paperwork snafu had him imprisoned under two different, but similar, names.

  • The Dallas Cowboys sell out their state-of-the art football stadium.

  • But I trusted Tony Robbins could sort me out on both fronts.

  • This treacherous sort of calm, we thought, might forbode a storm, and we did not allow it to lull us into security.

  • I want to see the sort of thing happening to schools that has already happened to many sorts of retail shops.

  • It is no good settling down in a world that, on its part, refuses to do anything of the sort.

  • Now in addition to that I had something else in my own college course—something of the same sort of thing but better.

  • Presently he began to shiver so, with some sort of a chill, that I took off my coat and wrapped it round him.

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