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单词 as it were
释义

as it were

In a way (used to be less precise): areas which have been, as it were, pushed aside...
  • Some of the young stags early in a hunt may turn and stand at bay for short periods as a sort of posturing, as it were, to the hounds.
  • It is clearly more powerful if you can identify a trend, because one rises above the individual dispute, as it were.
  • Not really hungry, the trio dined early and lightly, eating, as it were, out of habit rather than desire.

Synonyms

so to speak, in a manner of speaking, in a way, in some way or other, to some extent, so to say
informal sort of
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