| 词汇 | of a sort |
| 释义 | Idiom of a sort having some but not all of the characteristics of something.Officials portrayed the meetings as progress of a sort, although the bargaining has not yet begun. Usage notes: used after a noun being described, as in the example of a sortHaving inferior, mediocre, or incomplete characteristics of something. He writes poetry of a sort, but it's nothing that will set the world ablaze. The office has a gym of a sort, but it's in such disrepair that no one really uses it. of a ˈkind/ˈsort(disapproving) (used after a noun) of poor quality; not what somebody/something should be: He is a poet of a kind.They gave us meat of a sort; we could hardly eat it. |
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