NOUN USES AND PHRASES 名词用法和短语
- N-COUNT 种类
If you talk about a particular kind of thing, you are talking about one of the types or sorts of that thing.
- The party needs a different kind of leadership...
该党需要一种不同的领导风格。 - Had Jamie ever been in any kind of trouble?...
杰米遇到过什么麻烦吗? - I'm not the kind of person to get married...
我不是那种适合结婚的人。 - This book prize is the biggest of its kind in the world...
这一图书奖项是世界上同类奖项中分量最重的。 - Ear pain of any kind must never be ignored.
决不要忽视耳部的任何疼痛。
- N-COUNT 同类人
If you refer to someone's kind, you are referring to all the other people that are like them or that belong to the same class or set.
- I hate Lewis and his kind just as much as you do...
我和你一样痛恨刘易斯之流。 - I can take care of your kind.
我能对付像你这样的家伙。
- PHRASE 各种类型的;五花八门的
You can use all kinds of to emphasize that there are a great number and variety of particular things or people.
- Adoption can fail for all kinds of reasons...
收养不成功可能有各种原因。 - Donations came from all kinds of people...
捐赠来自于各界人士。 - All kinds of remarkable things began to happen.
开始发生各种不寻常的事。
- PHRASE 稍微;有几分;有点儿
You use kind of when you want to say that something or someone can be roughly described in a particular way.
- It was kind of sad, really...
有点儿让人难过,真的。 - She wasn't beautiful. But she was kind of cute...
她不漂亮。但她有几分可爱。 - It kind of gives us an idea of what's happening.
这让我们大概了解了正在发生的事情。
- PHRASE 名不副实,徒有其名(指不如本应有的那么好)
You can use of a kind to indicate that something is not as good as it might be expected to be, but that it seems to be the best that is possible or available.
- There is good news of a kind for the Prime Minister...
对总理来说也算是有个好消息。 - She finds solace of a kind in alcohol.
她从酒精中多少得到一些安慰。
- PHRASE 独一无二的;独特的
If you refer to someone or something as one of a kind, you mean that there is nobody or nothing else like them.
- She's a very unusual woman, one of a kind.
她是个非常与众不同的女人,是独一无二的。
- PHRASE 两个/三个/四个同一类的
If you refer, for example, to two, three, or four of a kind, you mean two, three, or four similar people or things that seem to go well or belong together.
- They were two of a kind, from the same sort of background.
他们俩是一类人,有相同的背景。
- PHRASE 以同样的方式
If you respond in kind, you react to something that someone has done to you by doing the same thing to them.
- They hurled defiant taunts at the riot police, who responded in kind.
他们向防暴警察挑衅大骂,防暴警察同样回骂他们。
- PHRASE 以实物支付;以货代款;以服务偿付
If you pay a debt in kind, you pay it in the form of goods or services and not money.
- Inflation and the shortage of banknotes has forced factories to pay their workers in kind.
通货膨胀和纸币短缺使工厂不得不以实物抵付工人的工资。 - ...benefits in kind.
实物形式的福利
ADJECTIVE USES 形容词用法
- ADJ-GRADED 慈祥的;体贴的;乐于助人的
Someone who is kind behaves in a gentle, caring, and helpful way towards other people.
- She is warm-hearted and kind to everyone and everything...
她对每个人每件事都很热心、宽厚。 - I must thank you for being so kind to me...
我很感激你对我这么好。 - It was very kind of you to come.
你能来真是太好了。
- ADJ-GRADED 请…,…可以吗(表示坚定且客气地请求某人做某事)
You can use kind in expressions such as please be so kind as to and would you be kind enough to in order to ask someone to do something in a firm but polite way.
- Please be so kind as to see to it that all the alterations are made at once!...
请务必立即执行变更! - I wonder if you'd be kind enough to call him.
请你给他打个电话好吗?
- ADJ-GRADED 突出优点的;使胜过实物的
Something that is kind emphasizes the good qualities in something, and perhaps makes it appear better than it really is.
- Summer clothes are invariably less kind to fuller figures.
体形较丰满的人穿夏装总是不那么好看。
- See also: kindly kindness