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

• He did buy me those daffodils a week or so ago
  他确实在大约一个星期前给我买了那些水仙花。
• Great clouds of black smoke were rising for several hundred feet or so.
  大片的黑色烟云升至大约几百英尺的空中。
• 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。
• I'm really sorry! or so sorry!
  实在抱歉！
• In a day or so he will be as good as new.
  他大概一天工夫就会恢复过来。
• We will have to wait a week or so before we know whether the operation is a success
  我们还得等一周左右才能知道手术是否成功。
• 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***曼反复宣扬的那差不多一打经济观点。
• Though he has lived in Beijing for ten years or so, he still speaks with a heavy accent.
  他虽然在北京住了十来年，可家乡口音一点儿没改。
• 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。