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some

/suhm; unstressed suhm/US // sʌm; unstressed səm //UK // (sʌm, unstressed səm) //

一些,有些,某些,有的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : being an undetermined or unspecified one: Some person may object.
    • : certain: Some days I stay home.
    • : of a certain unspecified number, amount, degree, etc.: to some extent.
    • : unspecified but considerable in number, amount, degree, etc.: We talked for some time. He was here some weeks.
    • : Informal. of impressive or remarkable quality, consequence, extent, etc.: That was some storm.
pron.代词 pronoun
  1. 1
    • : certain persons, individuals, instances, etc., not specified: Some think he is dead.
    • : an unspecified number, amount, etc., as distinguished from the rest or in addition: He paid a thousand dollars and then some.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : approximately; about: Some 300 were present.
    • : Informal. to some degree or extent; somewhat: I like baseball some. She is feeling some better today.
    • : Informal. to a great degree or extent; considerably: That's going some.

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Examples

  • At 17, she attended the Durango Songwriters Expo, a summit where 30 music industry professionals mentor 200 some-odd attendees.

  • Sixty-some years later, people are still plunking themselves down in the ever-popular Eames chairs.

  • My neurotic Jewish mother calls me every year in August to remind me that I need to get a flu shot before they some-how run out.

  • Thirty-some years later, the takeover is still a trauma of very high and personal order.

  • Could that blame-some-other-guy strategy succeed at a time of genuine economic distress?

  • He was like a fly condemned to spend his life in the irk-some society of the spider.

  • He also thanked him for his good service, and told him to choose some-one of his possessions, for he would get whatever he wanted.

  • We had in our box the hand-some ambassador and late tutor of the Mahararana of Oodeypore.

  • They were twenty small red demons rather like Billy, and the same number of tiny skeletons, all with waggle-some hands and feet.

  • Wed all be subjected to a force of twenty-some gravities for a period of several seconds.