as it were

as it were
как будто, так сказать; своего рода

Towards evening the weather turned hazy, with a drizzling rain; and soon became so thick, that we sailed as it were in a cloud. (Ch. Dickens, ‘American Notes’, ch. XVI) — К вечеру поднялся легкий туман и стало накрапывать. Скоро полил такой сильный дождь, что мы точно плыли внутри тучи.

It has been my conviction for many years that the Russian and the Englishman are as it were the complementary halves of a man. (J. Galsworthy, ‘Another Sheaf’, ‘Englishman and Russian’) — Уже много лет я придерживаюсь убеждения, что русские и англичане, так сказать, удачно дополняют друг друга.

He was, as it were, the missing link between the artist and the commercial public. (J. Galsworthy, ‘To Let’, part I, ch. IX) — Сомс являлся своего рода промежуточным звеном между художником и покупающей публикой.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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