more or less

英 [mɔː(r) ɔː(r) les]

美 [mɔːr ɔːr les]

或多或少;大概;几乎

英英释义

adv

• (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 aboutsomeroughlyaroundor so
• to a small degree or extent
  1. his arguments were somewhat self-contradictory
  2. the children argued because one slice of cake was slightly larger than the other
  Synonym:slightlysomewhat

双语例句

• We decided, more or less on a whim, to sail to Morocco
  我们多少有点心血来潮，决定航海去摩洛哥。
• These food markets have more or less the same setup.
  几个菜市场的格局差不多。
• It is now more or less settled.
  现在这件事差不多定下来了。
• I've more or less finished reading the book.
  我差不多已经把这本书全看完了。
• The officers were more or less able to dictate terms to successive governments
  这些军官多多少少都能和继任的各届政府谈些条件。
• For many, there is a more or less unwritten code here.
  对多数人来说，这里或多或少有个约定俗成的文法。
• The Conference is more or less over
  会议快结束了。
• Everybody felt more or less thirsty.
  大家都感到有些渴。
• Each of us have seen movies, and these movies more or less affect us.
  我们每个人都看过电影，这些电影或多或少地影响了我们。
• The cattle disease occurs more or less anywhere in Africa where the fly occurs
  在非洲凡是有这种蝇虫的地方，几乎都会出现这一牛病。