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roughly

US // (ˈrʌflɪ) //

大致,大致上,大致如此,大体上

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adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : without being exact or fully authenticated; approximatelyroughly half the candidates were successful
    • : in a clumsy, coarse, or violent mannerhis captors did not treat him roughly
    • : in a crude or primitive mannera slab of roughly hewn stone

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Examples

  • They have been studying a roughly 7-million-year-old fossil.

  • These changes equate to a roughly 6 and 9 percent jump in body mass in males and females, respectively, or about a one kilogram increase on average, the team reports July 31 in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

  • The home-improvement chain said that domestic same-store sales rose 25% in the quarter that ended in early August, roughly twice as much as Wall Street expected.

  • Petra Nova was meant to cut the unit’s carbon footprint by about a third—roughly the equivalent of taking 300,000 cars off the road each year.

  • Lord’s group extracted a complete set of nuclear DNA, which is inherited from both parents, from a roughly 18,530-year-old woolly rhino bone.

  • The U.S. only plans to train roughly 3,000 Iraqi troops in the first year.

  • These (roughly) $2,500 ceremonies are supposedly about encouraging “positive feelings” on the part of the single brides.

  • It is a multimillion-dollar business in which roughly 15 million fowl die a year.

  • By the end of the construction period, the number of deaths had reached roughly twenty percent of the workforce.

  • Since 1987, there have been roughly 1,300 cases filed under the blasphemy laws, according to varied reports.

  • "We will go to the Hotel de l'Europe, if you press it;" and away the cabriolet joggled over the roughly paved street.

  • He stepped to the girl, and roughly raised her chin with his hand so that she was forced to look him in the face.

  • A few have the eye and the artistic impulse needed for picturing, roughly at least, the look of an object.

  • Marceau, indignant at being rebuked by a young staff officer, roughly asked, "And who are you?"

  • You could use some force to prevent him, you could not kill him, or put out his eyes, or treat him roughly.