kind

1. N-COUNT If you talk about a particular kind of thing, you are talking about one of the types or sorts of that thing. 種類

The party needs a different kind of leadership. 該黨需要一種不同的領導。

Had Jamie ever been in any kind of trouble?

傑米曾經遇到過什麽樣的麻煩嗎？

2. N-COUNT 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. 同一類的人[表不滿]

I can take care of your kind. 我能對付你這類人。

3. PHRASE You can use all kinds of to emphasize that there are a great number and variety of particular things or people. 各種各樣的[強調]

Adoption can fail for all kinds of reasons. 收養可能因爲各種各樣的原因失敗。

4. PHRASE You use kind of when you want to say that something or someone can be roughly described in a particular way. 有點[口語]

It was kind of sad, really. 這真的有點傷感。

5. PHRASE If you refer to someone or something as one of a kind, you mean that there is nobody or nothing else like them. 獨一無二的[表贊許]

She's a very unusual woman, one of a kind. 她是個很不平常的女人，獨一無二。

6. PHRASE 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. 兩/三/四個同一類的人

They were two of a kind, from the same sort of background. 他們兩個是一類人，來自相同的背景。

7. PHRASE If you respond in kind, you react to something that someone has done to you by doing the same thing to them. 以同樣的方式

They hurled defiant taunts at the riot police, who responded in kind. 他們對著防暴警察憤然大罵，對方也以牙還牙。

8. PHRASE If you pay a debt in kind, you pay it in the form of goods or services and not money. 以貨代款; 以服務代款

...benefits in kind. …實物形式的收益。

9. PHRASE 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. 差強人意的一種[英國英語]

She finds solace of a kind in alcohol. 她在酒精裡勉強找到一點安慰。

PHRASE

1. ADJ Someone who is kind behaves in a gentle, caring, and helpful way toward other people. 和藹的; 仁慈的; 樂於助人的

I must thank you for being so kind to me. 真要感謝您對我這麽好。

2. kindlyADV 和藹地; 仁慈地; 樂於助人地[ADV after v]

"You seem tired this morning, Jenny," she said kindly. “今天早上你看起來有些疲倦，詹妮，”她和藹地說道。

3. ADJ 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. 用於(please be so kind as to)和(would you be kind enough to)中，表堅定而禮貌的命令[v-link ADJ] [禮貌]

Please be so kind as to see to it that all the alterations are made at once!

請注意所有變更必須馬上完成！

4. →see also kindly , kindness