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thereabout

/thair-uh-bout, thair-uh-bout/US // ˈðɛər əˌbaʊt, ˌðɛər əˈbaʊt //

左右,大概是这样,大概,大约

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
    • : about that number, amount, etc.

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Examples

  • The stretch between Silverton and Ouray is known as the Million Dollar Highway, honoring the gold ore extracted thereabouts…as well as the cost of building such a canyon-clinging ribbon of road.

  • The crash position, he explained, involves wrapping your hands underneath your legs and placing your head between your knees or thereabouts.

  • The second thing is, because of the Affordable Care Act, we put in what are called medical-loss ratios, which say that a certain percentage, thereabouts of 80 percent of what an insurer takes in, has to go out the door to cover healthcare costs.

  • There are now 250, or thereabouts, news organizations that are now part of the Institute for Nonprofit News.

  • So Meekins, at noon or thereabout, set off for Philadelphia, and before dark he was heard from.

  • T is the finest part of the city and the merriest, for the best hostelries are in the Place Baudet and thereabout.

  • And so they went to Salem, and some places thereabout, to visit and build up their friends in the faith.

  • Andrew Harben considered, and he saw what a mess he would start thereabout if he ever let his lights go out.

  • With studied elegance, the Comte put his hat to his breast, or thereabout, and bowed as he held open the door.

  • He was a man of sixty or thereabout, with a shrewd but not unkindly face that had something familiar in it.