aviation, sort of, a sort of, drachma

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aviation

noun [ U ]

UK 

 /ˌeɪ.viˈeɪ.ʃən/ US 

 /ˌeɪ.viˈeɪ.ʃən/

 

the activity of flying aircraft, or of designing, producing, and keeping them in good condition:

the British Civil Aviation Authority

the US Federal Aviation Administration

aviation fuel

Aviation
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sort of, a sort of,

最近幾天補讀永安翻譯的 The Vicar’s Garden and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence

台灣的出版社或為銷路，故意用書中一篇《密愛》當書名，其實我初看此兩字，根本無法想像原篇的英文……

DHL 的文字，就是那麼不同，或許，所有的翻譯都無法取代原文。連書名都無法認真翻譯…..

譬如說 ，A Sort of Life by Graham Greene*

這種 說法，是英國人歷盡滄桑或玩世不恭的說法

譬如說；

“ Well, what a man to do? It’s no sort of life for a man of my years, to sit at my own hearth like a stranger….”ODOUR OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS by D. H. Lawrence

*《小說家的人生》台北：時報

kind of
Also, sort of. Rather, somewhat, as in I'm kind of hungry, or The bird looked sort of like a sparrow. [Colloquial; c. 1800] This usage should not be confused with a kind of or a sort of, which are much older and refer to a borderline member of a given category (as in a kind of a shelter or a sort of a bluish color). Shakespeare had this usage in Two Gentlemen of Verona (3:1): "My master is a kind of a knave." Also see of a kind.

drachma

See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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Pronunciation: /ˈdrakmə/

Definition of drachma in English:

noun (plural drachmas or drachmae ˈdrakmiː)

1A former monetary unit of Greece, notionally equal to 100 lepta, replaced in 2002 by the euro.

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

1.1A silver coin of ancient Greece.

Origin

Via Latin from Greek drakhmē, an Attic weight and coin. Compare with dirham and drachm.