Thereabouts
['ðeərəbaʊts;-'baʊts]
解釋/意思:
(adv.) Near that place.
(adv.) Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts.
(adv.) Concerning that; about that.
校對:沃尔多
同義詞及近義詞：
ad. [1]. Nearly, about that, somewhere about that.[2]. Near that place.
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例句/造句/用法:
- By disappearing from such place, and being no more heard of thereabouts. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Clear of the room he looks at his watch but is inclined to doubt it by a minute or thereabouts. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- All that again is what might have happened in 500 B.C. or thereabouts against the Huns. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We went towards Camberwell Green, and when we were thereabouts, Wemmick said suddenly,-- Halloa! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Four years apiece, or thereabouts. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- No, not nine, but there or thereabouts. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It had remained there, only twelve feet underground, for a matter of twenty-five hundred years or thereabouts. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- They desired me to stay--my cousin Maria charged me to say that you would find them at that knoll, or thereabouts. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- It should be borne in mind that the incandescent lamp which was accepted at the time as a standard (and has so remained to the present day) was a lamp of 110 volts or thereabouts. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
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