or so

英 [ɔː(r) səʊ]

美 [ɔːr soʊ]

…左右;…上下

英英释义

adv

• (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
  1. lasted approximately an hour
  2. in just about a minute
  3. he's about 30 years old
  4. I've had about all I can stand
  5. we meet about once a month
  6. some forty people came
  7. weighs around a hundred pounds
  8. roughly $3,000
  9. holds 3 gallons, more or less
  10. 20 or so people were at the party
  Synonym:approximatelyaboutclose tojust aboutsomeroughlymore or lessaround

双语例句

• I have seen him walking down to the shops a mile or so away
  我看见他朝大约一英里以外的商店走去了。
• He will return in a week or so.
  他在一星期左右以后回来。
• The war had ended only a month or so before.
  战争大约一个月前才刚刚结束。
• Though rates are heading down, they still offer real returns of 8% or so
  尽管利率在下降，它们仍然能提供8%左右的实际收益率。
• I'm really sorry! or so sorry!
  实在抱歉！
• Having lived in Shanghai for a decade or so, he still leans towards his native dishes.
  在上海虽已住了10年左右，他还是喜欢吃家乡菜。
• A dozen or so victims of food poisoning were sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.
  有十几个人食物中毒，立刻送医院急救。
• Matt got me a room there for a week or so when I first came here
  我初次来到这里的时候，马特找了个房间让我住了大约一个星期。
• It was only an hour or so later that I discovered that my gun was missing
  仅仅约一个小时之后，我发现我的枪不见了。
• She reeled off the titles of a dozen or so of the novels.
  她脱口说出十几本小说的书名。