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单词 kind of thing
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kind of thing
(b) colloquial. kind of thing: used conversationally to qualify a preceding statement, suggesting that the statement is approximate or captures the speaker's meaning only in a general way: ‘as it were’, ‘so to speak’, ‘or something of that kind’. Cf. earlier sort of thing at sort n.2 10b.
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1907 Church Eclectic July 282/1 The short, crisp, magazine article, which gives the cock-sure feeling, so satisfactory to the man in the street—‘all for sixpence, taught whilst you wait,’ as it were kind of thing.
1966 K. Amis Anti-Death League (1968) 114 How did you get on to it, kind of thing?
2002 S. Finnan in L. Purcell Black Chicks Talking 34 My grandmother had a large family, in two lots, kind of thing.
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