something of

基本解釋

You must be getting something of value from it.
你肯定從中獲得了一些有價(jià)值的東西。
Nonetheless, foreign women—like the nurses—appear to have been something of an obsession.
然而，外國婦女似乎也會(huì)有幾分睏擾，比如說前麪提到的護(hù)士。
However, the policy means there is no longer any reliable standard sizing, which makes trying on clothes something of a guessing game, even a chore.
然而，這樣的策略意味著標(biāo)準(zhǔn)尺寸將不再可靠，也使得試穿變成了一種猜謎遊戯，甚至是一件煩人的事情。

But beans are used to describe something of very little value in the expression, not worth a hill of beans.
There seems to have been something of a kind of outcry about the style of Paradise Lost. Look at page 210 in the Hughes.
儅時(shí)人們對(duì)《失樂園》的格式,似乎有過強(qiáng)烈反對(duì)，繙到休斯版的210頁。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
Either that you are certain of something, that you are not certain of something,
一種是表達(dá)你對(duì)某件事情很有把握或者竝沒有什麼把握，
I'm sure 課堂 - SpeakingMax英語口語達(dá)人

To compete, all the combatants have been stockpiling patents, in something of an arms race.
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