more or less
英 [mɔː(r) ɔː(r) les]
美 [mɔːr ɔːr les]
或多或少;大概;几乎
英英释义
adv
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
- lasted approximately an hour
- in just about a minute
- he's about 30 years old
- I've had about all I can stand
- we meet about once a month
- some forty people came
- weighs around a hundred pounds
- roughly $3,000
- holds 3 gallons, more or less
- 20 or so people were at the party
- to a small degree or extent
- his arguments were somewhat self-contradictory
- the children argued because one slice of cake was slightly larger than the other
双语例句
- The officers were more or less able to dictate terms to successive governments
这些军官多多少少都能和继任的各届政府谈些条件。 - The author can report other people's results which more or less agree with hers.
作者可以提及其他人得出的和她自己基本吻合的结果。 - The Conference is more or less over
会议快结束了。 - These food markets have more or less the same setup.
几个菜市场的格局差不多。 - For many, there is a more or less unwritten code here.
对多数人来说，这里或多或少有个约定俗成的文法。 - What you have done will more or less be helpful to us.
你所做的一切或多或少将对我们有帮助。 - In investing money some people go for more or less assured dividends, others for capital increase.
拿钱投资，有的人打算得到多少有点保障的股息，有的人则为了增加资本。 - I was meeting these chaps who were mostly more or less my own age.
我见到了这帮小伙子，他们多数和我年龄相仿。 - It is now more or less settled.
现在这件事差不多定下来了。 - Everybody felt more or less thirsty.
大家都感到有些渴。