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。
• Why don't you walk the dog round for half an hour or so? it'll give you some exercise, and probably calm you.
  你怎么不带着狗儿去遛半小时左右呢？这可以使你锻炼一下身体，或许会使你平静下来。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。