| 单词 | something of the kind |
| 释义 | > as lemmassomething of the kind (b) something of the kind: something like the thing which has been mentioned or described. ΚΠ 1733 P. Shaw in tr. F. Bacon Philos. Wks. II. 484 This indeed would be a capital Work; and we conceive Hopes that something of the kind is the View and Design of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. 1806 Trial R. Patch 60 It might be a shot fired from a police-boat, after a boat with some smuggled goods, or something of the kind. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xvii. 55 Something of the kind had been done. 1911 J. Conrad Let. 20 Oct. (1956) 234 Something of the kind must be done or else novel-writing becomes a mere debauch of the imagination. 2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 31 July 6 Mr Miliband is the only one of the four main party leaders who doesn't already do something of the kind. < as lemmas |
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