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

• I was meeting these chaps who were mostly more or less my own age.
  我见到了这帮小伙子，他们多数和我年龄相仿。
• It is now more or less settled.
  现在这件事差不多定下来了。
• The author can report other people's results which more or less agree with hers.
  作者可以提及其他人得出的和她自己基本吻合的结果。
• The fine they gave her is just more or less a slap on the wrist.
  他们对她开出的罚金不过是一个轻微的警告而已。
• She started off by accusing him of blackmail but he more or less ignored her
  她先是指控他勒索，但他几乎不理睬她。
• Roger's ideas had been more or less ignored.
  罗杰的想法差不多被忽视了。
• 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。
• The contents are more or less the same.
  内容相仿佛。
• Production is more or less at a standstill.
  生产几乎处于停顿状态。
• More or less they felt tired.
  或多或少，他们感到累了。