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

• 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。
• 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。
• Many of the 100,000 or so families who lost their homes in the earthquake have still not been rehoused
  有10万户左右的家庭在地震中失去了家园，其中许多家庭还没有得到安置。
• 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。
• 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。
• There were a hundred or so hotels in the vicinity of the railway station
  在火车站附近大约有100家旅馆。
• 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。
• 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。