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词根:approximation
adj.approximative 近似的
n.approximation [数] 近似法;接近;[数] 近似值
Adverb
1. (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct;
"lasted approximately an hour"
"in just about a minute"
"he's about 30 years old"
"I've had about all I can stand"
"we meet about once a month"
"some forty people came"
"weighs around a hundred pounds"
"roughly $3,000"
"holds 3 gallons, more or less"
"20 or so people were at the party"
approximately equal约等于,近似等于
approximately最接近的,误差极小
about大致接近,误差可大可小;
以上来源于网络
这组词都有“大约,差不多”的意思,其区别是:
almost指在程度上相差很小,差不多。
approximately多用于书面语,指精确度接近某个标准以致误差可忽略不计。
about常可分almost和nearly换用,但about用于表示时间、数量的“大约”时,实际数量可能多也可能少。
nearly与almost含义基本相同,侧重指数量、时间或空间上的接近。
roughly指按精略估计,常代替about。
around多用于非正式场合,常见于美国英语。
以上来源于网络
"近乎,接近地; 近似地",1742年,来自 approximate(形容词)+ -ly(2)。
The first known use of approximately was in 1742
argueverb
to give reasons for or against
argue in favor of lowering taxes
to talk about some matter usually with different points of view
argue about politics
to persuade by giving reasons
tried to argue their parents into getting a new car
areanoun
a particular piece of ground or extent of space often set aside for special use a waiting area
a picnic area
the surface inside a figure or shapeespecially: the number of unit squares equal to the amount of space the surface covers
a circle with an area of 500 square meters
region sense 2a
a farming area
a field of activity or study
a part of the brain having a particular function (as vision or hearing)
aptitudenoun
ability to learn : aptness
a natural ability
an aptitude for mathematics
aptadjective
just rightespecially: being to the point : relevant
an apt remark
having a tendency : inclined, likely
apt to become angry
quick to learn
an apt pupil
approximatelyadverb
reasonably close to at approximately six o'clock
approximately 5 miles
1 Each of these characteristics sharply distinguishes the 21,000 people who left for New England in the 1630s from most of the approximately 377,000 English people who had immigrated to America by 1700.
所有这些中的每一个特征明确地区分了17世纪30年代前往新英格兰的21000人和1700年移民到美国的约37.7万英国人中的大多数。
2 Its sales in fiscal 2007 were approximately $ 90 million.
其在2007财年的销售额大约为9000万美元.
3 As often observed, however, the 45,000 people killed annually on American roads are approximately equal in number to all American dead in the Vietnam War.
4 In the fall of 1952, when Bobby was nine, Regina secured scholarship enrollment for him in Brooklyn Community Woodward, a progressive grade school of approximately 150 children.
5 In addition, he made approximately $7,500 a year giving exhibitions and lectures.
6 The U.S. GDP is approximately US $ 10 trillion, thus the market capitalization is 84 % of the GDP.
美国的国内生产总值指数达到约10万亿美金, 这样人们就可以算出该股指占国内生产总值的比重为84%.
7 According to his schedule, allowing room for delays, he would hear from Mrs. Das in approximately six weeks’ time.
8 Prior to the clinic’s existence, acute altitude illness killed approximately one or two out of every 500 trekkers who passed through Pheriche.
9 Amarante Cordova was already talking to the approximately seventy-five people present, most of them either middle-aged or quite old men, interspersed by a few women, and maybe a dozen kids.
10 This breakup could further be justified ( approximately ) by examining statistics on existing rockets.
通过对现在火箭的调查统计,可以进一步 ( 近似地 ) 证明这种分法是合理的.
11 “Angel 5! Angel 5!” he said, “plane down in area approximately ten miles east of runway in the Combahee Island area!”
12 We were skimming along approximately sixty miles above the moon’s pockmarked surface.
13 We are due to leave Folkestone in about five minutes and a journey to Boulogne will take approximately two hours.
我们预计将在五分钟内离开福克斯通,前往布洛涅大约需要两个小时。
14 It is empty save for two people seated approximately ten rows back from the stage.
15 The first “ paintings” were probably made in caves approximately 15,000 years ago.
16 By the time Ngawang’s heart started beating again, however, a period of approximately ten minutes had passed in which little oxygen had reached his brain.
17 The creature was a party of boys, marching approximately in step in two parallel lines and dressed in strangely eccentric clothing.
18 Do anyone of you know approximately how much higher it goes?
你们中的任意一个知道它近似高出多少吗?
19 Currently there are approximately five million people gleaned per year worldwide—a tiny fraction of the death rate in the Age of Mortality, and nowhere near enough to balance population growth.
20 By my senior year of high school, I can say with total confidence, I'd seen my dad cry approximately one million times.
1 大概
approximate skeletal about around probably maybe perhaps arguably supposedly presumably loosely approx. will would I shouldn't wonder in the area of in the vicinity of in rough of the order of in the order of round about approx general crude like generally as like as not like as not like enough just about more or less most like very like I dare say
2 大约
approximate so about some around round sort somewhere like circa something perhaps thereabouts matter c. -odd -ish in the neighbourhood of or two or so more or less in the area of somewhere between in the vicinity of somewhere around of the order of in the order of in the region of round about c approx odd plus-minus roughly or near just about plus or minus as near as back-of-the-envelope approximative ratherish ablings ablins SO thereabout approximatively thereaway say ballpark figure there or thereabout a matter of on the order of in the neighborhood of
4 约莫