or so

1. The war had ended only a month or so before.
   战争大约一个月前才刚刚结束。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. Some seed varieties germinate fast, so check every day or so
   有一些种子发芽快，所以差不多每天得察看一下。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. There was nothing more he wanted, or so he thought
   他再无所求，或者说他是这么想的。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. 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。
14. Though rates are heading down, they still offer real returns of 8% or so
    尽管利率在下降，它们仍然能提供8%左右的实际收益率。
15. 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。
16. The driver usually spends four hours or so helping to load and prepare his lorry.
    司机通常花4小时左右的时间帮忙装货和打理货车。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. Completion of this bridge is expected in a year or so.
    这座桥一年半载可望竣工。
21. He will return in a week or so.
    他在一星期左右以后回来。
22. I'm really sorry! or so sorry!
    实在抱歉！
23. 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。
24. 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。
25. This, perhaps, explains the dozen or so points that Krugman makes over and over.
    这也许有助于解释克鲁格曼反复宣扬的那差不多一打经济观点。
26. 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。
27. 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。
28. 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。
29. But he said kinsfolk was kinsfolk, and promises was promises, so he'd go for a day or so, and then it would be over.
    可是他说亲戚到底是亲戚，既然答应了去，就只能去一趟，住上一两天也就算了。

adv

1. (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