kind of/sort of可作为一个整体视为副词；在非正式英语，特别是美语中常常作副词使用，起减弱语的作用，可译为“有点、稍微、几乎等”，我们可以称它们为“减弱语”。基本可以互换使用。和一般副词一样，kind of /sort of的位置是：助动词、情态动词和系动词后，实义动词前。在口语或歌词里还可以分别简略为：kinda= kind of;sorta= sort of.
1.接形容词（或副词）
I’m kind of tired.我有点累。
I’m kind of hungry.我有点饿。
kind of slowly有点慢。（后接了副词）
He spoke sort of proudly.
他说话带几分傲气。（后接了副词）
He has been acting sort of strangely lately.
他近来行为有点古里古怪。（后接了副词）
The terrier was kind of short with long,black hair.
这只猎犬有点矮，有长长的黑毛。
We were sort of worried about leaving Grandfather alone.
把祖父一个人留下来，我们有点担心。
He is kind of weird,but I kind of love him.
他有点古怪，但是我有点爱他。
第一个kind of后接形容词weird；第二个kind of后接动词love。
I was feeling sort of tired from the trip to New York and all 我去纽约一趟回来，觉得有点累。
2.接名词
I'll never have that kind of money.
我永远不会有那么多的钱。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
He is kind of a fool.
他有点傻。
It’s kind of an emergency. 有点紧急。
sort of/ kind of +a n.表示具有某种气质、特性，如 sort of/ kind of a man 有那么点儿男子汉气概 。
He gave a kind of smile and left the room.
他露出一丝微笑，离开了那个房间。
I won't tell you; it is sort of a secret.我不告诉你，这有点是秘密。
3.接动词
He is kind of weird,but I kind of love him.
他有点古怪，但是我有点爱他。
I kind of thought you might have forgotten.
我有点以为你已经忘记了。
I sort of thought you might say that.我多少料到你也许会那么说。
They kind of laughed at me.他们有点嘲笑我。
3. a.修饰动名词和分词。
eg.What about you and me sort of stepping out?我和你出去随便走走好吗？
When you give someone a tip,you’er sort of being polite.
当你给别人小费时，你就显得比较有礼貌。（摘自赵振才《英语常见问题解答大词典》P735.）
After I got across the road ,I felt as if I was kind of disappearing.我穿过马路后，觉得自己好像失踪了似的。
She was sort of mucked-mouthed.她可以说是个花嘴姑娘。
b.修饰不定式（只出现在分裂不定式和不带to的不定式作表语的结构里）。
eg. I was beginning to sort of hate him.我开始有点恨他了。
His job is kind of to nose others' privacy.他的工作有点像打探别人的隐私。
c.修饰介词短语。
eg. A guinea pig looks kind of like a rabit,but it has short ears.豚鼠有点像兔子，只是耳朵短些。
4.考试真题再现
He says, "People are sort of fact-checking what they have heard from a doctor."
他说："在某种程度上，人们是在检查他们从医生那里听到的信息是否正确。"
中考真题- 2019 呼和浩特 阅读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."
我认为伊索暗示的是，当你对他人做了一件善事，你可以希望这一善事会返回来使你——做这件善事的人——在某种程度上受益。
四级真题- 2016年 6月 3卷 信息匹配
最后强调一下，Kind /sort of还可后置，前面用逗号或破折号与句子隔开，作为对前面内容的补充。
eg. It looks like Shakespeare's play——sort of .它像是莎士比亚的戏剧——有那么几分像。
