看美剧学英语高频短语：Not much of a

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Not much of a: used to say that someone or something is not very good; If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
As in It's not much of a career, you may think.

中文释义：not much of a ...表示“不是很好，不怎么样，不是什么了不起的……”，much of a + 名词是常用的一个特殊结构。结构中的“much of”表示一种程度, 修饰“a + 名词”所表示的意思。例句：He is not much of a musician. （他不是什么了不起的音乐家。）类似的表达还有something of a 表示”某种程度上是，可以说是一个……“，是一个惯用表达，比如：She seems to be something of a dancer. （她有点像个舞蹈家。）