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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It is good enough to earn ten thousand yuan or so a month.
  一个月赚个万儿八千的相当不错了。
• 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。
• Dunk new plants in a bucket of water for an hour or so before planting.
  栽种新植物之前将它们在水桶中浸泡一小时左右。
• 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。
• 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。