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。
• 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。
• Very little was done to progress the case in the first 10 or so months after K was charged.
  在K被指控后最初的10个月左右，这个案子进展缓慢。
• There was nothing more he wanted, or so he thought
  他再无所求，或者说他是这么想的。
• This, perhaps, explains the dozen or so points that Krugman makes over and over.
  这也许有助于解释克鲁格曼反复宣扬的那差不多一打经济观点。
• He will return in a week or so.
  他在一星期左右以后回来。
• 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。
• Usually when we're six months or so into a recovery, confidence begins to build.
  通常我们在恢复约6个月后信心开始建立。
• Some seed varieties germinate fast, so check every day or so
  有一些种子发芽快，所以差不多每天得察看一下。
• They felt that, at 69 or so, Mr Peters was past his prime.
  他们觉得69岁左右的彼得斯先生已经风光不再了。