致命的禮物分析類 / 類可以被視為一個副詞作為一個整體；在非正式的英語，尤其是在美國，它經(jīng)常被用作副詞作為一個弱化詞，可以翻譯為“一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)，一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)，幾乎等”。我們可以稱之為“弱化詞”，可以與一般副詞互換使用。
I’m kind of hungry.我有點(diǎn)餓。
1.接形容詞（或副詞）I’m kind of tired.我有點(diǎn)累。
kind of slowly有點(diǎn)慢。
（后接了副詞）He spoke sort of proudly.
他說話帶幾分傲氣。
（后接了副詞）He has been acting sort of strangely lately.
他近來行為有點(diǎn)古里古怪。
（后接了副詞）The terrier was kind of short with long，black hair.
這只獵犬有點(diǎn)矮，有長長的黑毛。We were sort of worried about leaving Grandfather alone.
把祖父一個人留下來，我們有點(diǎn)擔(dān)心。He is kind of weird，but I kind of love him.
他有點(diǎn)古怪，但是我有點(diǎn)愛他。第一個kind of后接形容詞weird；
第二個kind of后接動詞love。
I was feeling sort of tired from the trip to New York and all 我去紐約一趟回來，覺得有點(diǎn)累。
2.接名詞 I'll never have that kind of money.我永遠(yuǎn)不會有那么多的錢。
《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》He is kind of a fool.他有點(diǎn)傻。It’s kind of an emergency.有點(diǎn)緊急。
sort of/ kind of +a n.表示具有某種氣質(zhì)、特性，如 sort of/ kind of a man 有那么點(diǎn)兒男子漢氣概。
He gave a kind of smile and left the room.他露出一絲微笑，離開了那個房間。
I won't tell you；
it is sort of a secret.我不告訴你，這有點(diǎn)是秘密。
3.接動詞 He is kind of weird，but I kind of love him.他有點(diǎn)古怪，但是我有點(diǎn)愛他。
I kind of thought you might have forgotten.我有點(diǎn)以為你已經(jīng)忘記了。
I sort of thought you might say that.我多少料到你也許會那么說。
They kind of laughed at me.他們有點(diǎn)嘲笑我。
3.a.修飾動名詞和分詞。
eg.What about you and me sort of stepping out?
我和你出去隨便走走好嗎？
When you give someone a tip，you’er sort of being polite.
當(dāng)你給別人小費(fèi)時，你就顯得比較有禮貌。
（摘自趙振才《英語常見問題解答大詞典》P735.）After I got across the road，I felt as if I was kind of disappearing.我穿過馬路后，覺得自己好像失蹤了似的。
She was sort of mucked-mouthed.她可以說是個花嘴姑娘。b.修飾不定式（只出現(xiàn)在不定式和不帶to的不定式作表語的結(jié)構(gòu)里）。
eg.I was beginning to sort of hate him.我開始有點(diǎn)恨他了。His job is kind of to nose others' privacy.他的工作有點(diǎn)像打探別人的隱私。
c.修飾介詞短語。eg.A guinea pig looks kind of like a rabit，but it has short ears.豚鼠有點(diǎn)像兔子，只是耳朵短些。
4.考試真題再現(xiàn) He says，"People are sort of fact-checking what they have heard from a doctor."
他說："在某種程度上，人們是在檢查他們從醫(yī)生那里聽到的信息是否正確。
" 中考真題-2019呼和浩特 閱讀B
"I think what Aesop was suggesting is that when you offer a good turn to another human being，one can hope that that good deed will come back and sort of pay a profit to you，the doer of the good deed."
四級真題-xx年xx月3卷 信息匹配 最后強(qiáng)調(diào)一下，Kind /sort of還可后置，前面用逗號或破折號與句子隔開，作為對前面內(nèi)容的補(bǔ)充。
eg.It looks like Shakespeare's play——sort of.它像是莎士比亞的戲劇——有那么幾分像。
