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 after a fashion
 勉強,馬虎;拙劣地,差勁地,不高明地

 Fash·ion n.
 1. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.
    The fashion of his countenance was altered.   --Luke ix. 29.
    I do not like the fashion of your garments.   --Shak.
 2. The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.
    The innocent diversions in fashion.   --Locke.
    As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.   --H. Spencer.
 3. Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.
 4. Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way. “After his sour fashion.”
 After a fashion, to a certain extent; of a sort; sort of.
 Fashion piece Naut., one of the timbers which terminate the transom, and define the shape of the stern.
 Fashion plate, a pictorial design showing the prevailing style or a new style of dress.

 after a fashion
      adv : to some extent; not very well; "he speaks French after a
            fashion"