| 单词 | kind |
| 释义 | kind I. 1. a. archaic < God holds us by laws of kind — Nathaniel Fairfax > < lovers wanting sight shall follow kind — Thomas Watson †1592 > specifically b. < people … cut off by the desert or the frozen north from communication with their kind — Ellen Glasgow > < the ways that mud turtles had found best for their kind — J.W.Krutch > < search for the real essences of natural kinds — Stuart Hampshire > c. archaic < of a gentle kind and noble stock — Shakespeare > d. archaic < poets ever were a careless kind — William Collins †1759 > 2. a. archaic < mirthful … but in a stately kind — Alfred Tennyson > < in no kind desirous that his majesty should be under any obligation — Thomas Hale > b. South & Midland < he's heartburning the worst kind over that little gal — American Guide Series: Tennessee > < he's goin' to coax his father the hardest kind — W.D.Howells > 3. a. obsolete < ask … what inquest made her dissemble her disguished kind — Edmund Spenser > b. archaic < though fickle she prove, a woman has't by kind — Robert Burns > c. < problems of social science differ from problems of individual behavior in degree … not in kind — Edward Sapir > 4. a. < examples of kinds of steel are: crucible, Bessemer, basic open-hearth — S.E.Rusinoff > < colonial houses … perfect of their kind — R.W.Hatch > < there are kinds of madness which are really forms of inspiration — R.M.Weaver > < the kind is satire — Times Literary Supplement > < turned to Washington … to find companionship among his own kind — Allen Johnson > < the people I have in mind are the kind who assume most of the responsibility for unpaid … civic duties — J.W.Hoffman > — sometimes used as a zero plural with a preceding these or those and a following of < these kind of sensational statements — Sir Winston Churchill > b. (1) < one kind of uniform for all … troops — L.H.Smith > < the kind of analysis followed — W.D.Preston > < what kind of car do you drive > — often used in the phrase kind of a < some kind of a house is the first requirement of civilized man — L.F.Salzman > < what kind of an organization — H.E.Gaston > < consider the kind of a community in which they have faith — Eric Goldman > < that kind of a girl — Hamilton Basso > (2) < novel which won all kinds of praise — Saturday Review > < can be more kinds of a fool in a short time — W.C.Tuttle > < didn't figure that was any kind of a life — H.S.Chippendale > c. < gave a kind of snort — John Dos Passos > < the whole universe … turned a kind of gray — H.A.Chippendale > < it's kind of a vacation — W.H.Whyte > < kind of a blend of humor and pathos > d. < four of a kind > 5. Christian religion < Communion is given in one kind only in Germany — C.B.Moss > 6. a. < economic measures providing aid in kind rather than in cash — Frank Lorimer > b. < reply in kind > < it hadn't seemed such a terrible thing to hurt him until she was paid back in kind — William Heuman > 7. < he's got to be good to pull down that kind of money — Richard Llewellyn > Synonyms: see type II. 1. obsolete < is but kind for a cock's head to breed a comb — Stephen Gosson > 2. now dialect < graft … kind fruits upon thorns — John Hales > < the cultivation having been perfect, the barley crop will be kind — S.C.Scrivener > 3. now chiefly dialect a. < reserve your kind looks and language for private hours — Jonathan Swift > b. < should declare himself … kind for all those benefits — Homilies > 4. a. < was always kind to the boy — A. Conan Doyle > < everyone is so friendly and kind — A.J.McConnell > b. < naturally you are kind to pets — Boy Scout Handbook > < generally was kind in his judgment of me — O.W.Holmes †1935 > c. < a kind act > 5. now chiefly dialect a. < the soft green … countryside is so kind to your eyes — Richard Joseph > b. < the wool was … kind to handle — Westralian Farmers Co-op Gazette > Synonyms: < a kind person with a kindly interest in the problems of others > < a person kind to animals > < the kindly attentions of an elderly stranger > < the critics were by no means kind to the play — J.K.Newnham > < felt kindly and protective and superior — Christopher Isherwood > benign and benignant stress mildness and mercifulness and apply more often to the acts, utterances, or policies, gracious or patronizing, of a superior rather than an equal < a benign master > < the benign rule of a benevolent despot > < the transformation of a benign personality into a belligerent one — Lewis Mumford > < looked up into his benignant face, as if she had come thither for his pardon and paternal affection — Nathaniel Hawthorne > < heaven was divinely merciful, infinitely benignant. It spared him, pardoned his weakness — Virginia Woolf > III. now dialect < how kind he puts it — Charles Dickens > IV. obsolete V. |
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