Sentence examples of "a kind of" in English
Shanghainese is actually a kind of pidgin, based on Wu dialects, Lower Yangtze Mandarin, and English loanwords.
Le shanghaïen est en fait une sorte de pidgin, fondé sur les dialectes wu, le mandarin du bas-Yangtse, et des mots empruntés à l'anglais.
In the style of conceited people, he lards his sentences with ill-digested English words. A kind of failed dandy, deprived of class.
À la manière des fats, il larde ses phrases de mots anglais mal digérés. Une sorte de dandy raté, auquel il manquerait la classe.
It is astonishing to witness that the Iranians, onto whom the Arabs imposed Islam through military defeat, have become its most zealous followers to the point of oppressing those of Zoroastrianism, though it is the religion of their own fathers. A kind of Stockholm syndrome on the national scale.
Il est étonnant de constater que les Iraniens, auxquels les Arabes ont imposé l'Islam en les battant militairement, sont devenus ses plus zélés adeptes au point d'opprimer ceux du Zoroastrisme, qui est pourtant la religion de leurs propres pères. Une sorte de syndrome de Stockholm à l'échelle nationale.
It goes without saying that at that time a kind of friendship beyond master and disciple grew between the two of them.
Cela va sans dire qu'à ce moment une sorte d'amitié au-delà de la relation maître-disciple grandissait entre eux deux.
He's born from a Jewish mother and a Muslim father; this helped him much to develop a kind of openmindedness.
Il est né d'une mère juive et d'un père musulman, cela l'a beaucoup aidé à cultiver une certaine ouverte d'esprit.
Strictly speaking, the bamboo is a kind of grass.
Strictement parlant, le bambou est une variété d'herbe.
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
Le cerveau pourrait être considéré comme un type de parasite de l'organisme, un pensionnaire qui réside dans le corps.
Pizza is the kind of food that fits into today's life style.
La pizza est le genre d'alimentation qui convient au style de vie d'aujourd'hui.
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