sort
n. 种类; 排序
v. 安排妥当; 分类
If you talk about a particular sort of something, you are talking about a class of things that have particular features in common and that belong to a larger group of related things.
What sort of school did you go to?...
你上的是哪类学校?
There are so many different sorts of mushrooms available these days...
现在可以买到许许多多不同种类的蘑菇。
You describe someone as a particular sort when you are describing their character.
He seemed to be just the right sort for the job...
他似乎正是干这个工作的合适人选。
She was a very vigorous sort of person...
她是那种精力非常充沛的人。
If you sort things, you separate them into different classes, groups, or places, for example so that you can do different things with them.
He sorted the materials into their folders...
他把材料分门别类放进了文件夹。
The students are sorted into three ability groups...
学生们被按照各自的能力分成了 3 个组。
If you get a problem or the details of something sorted, you do what is necessary to solve the problem or organize the details.
I'm trying to get my script sorted...
我正努力把手稿的内容理顺。
These problems have now been sorted.
这些问题现在已经解决了。
All sorts of things or people means a large number of different things or people.
There are all sorts of animals, including bears, pigs, kangaroos, and penguins...
有各种各样的动物,包括熊、猪、袋鼠和企鹅。
It was used by all sorts of people...
各种各样的人都使用它。
If you describe something as a thing of sorts or as a thing of a sort, you are suggesting that the thing is of a rather poor quality or standard.
He made a living of sorts selling pancakes from a van...
他靠用货车卖薄饼勉强度日。
She even managed a grimacing smile of sorts...
她甚至做了个怪笑。
You use sort of when you want to say that your description of something is not very accurate.
You could even order windows from a catalogue — a sort of mail order stained glass service...
你甚至可以根据目录订购窗户——可以说是一种邮购彩色玻璃的业务。
In the end, she sort of pushed it...
最后,她几乎是用了推的。
If you are out of sorts, you feel slightly unwell, upset, or annoyed.
1. a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality;
2. an approximate definition or example;
3. a person of a particular character or nature;
4. an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion;
1. examine in order to test suitability;
2. arrange or order by classes or categories;
kind, sort, type, class, classification, category, species, variety
这些名词均有"种,类,类型"之意。
organize, arrange, classify, sort
这些动词均含"使有条理,安排"之意。
in some sort
在某种程度上
it takes all sorts to make a world
(谚)世上的人无奇不有(常用来表示说话人对某种奇怪行为的评价)
nothing of the sort
[用来断然否定或反驳先前的话语或设想] 绝对不行,没那回事儿
of a sort
(非正式)勉强称得上的,有点不寻常的
sort of
(非正式)有点儿(表达不确切或模糊)
sort out the men from the boys
选出强者,选出能手
the —— sort
那种人
sort someone out
(非正式)惩处,教训
sort something out
拣出,挑选
安排;准备
after a sort
有点儿:以一种随意或者不完美的方式
of sorts 或 of a sort
平庸的,者低劣的
各种各样的,非此即彼的
out of sorts
身体欠佳
心情不佳的;脾气坏的
sort of【非正式用语】
有几分;相当
We found him to be the right sort of timber.
我们发现他是真正的人才.
The car's got some sort of engine trouble again.
车子的引擎又出了什么故障.
We must never permit anything of the sort.
我们绝不允许存在这样的情况.
She's obviously had some sort of cosmetic surgery.
她显然做过某种美容术.
I don't much care for that sort of man.
我不太喜欢那种人.