摘要:or so:或如此,大约
or so跟在数量表达后面,含义为“大约、左右、上下”,如
【例句1】We stayed for an hour or so. (我们呆了一个小时左右)[牛津高级学者辞典]
【例句2】We have to leave in five minutes or so. (我们必须在五分钟左右离开)[朗文当代英语词典]
【例句3】The driver usually spends four hours or so helping to load and prepare his lorry. (司机通常花四个小时左右的时间帮助装载和准备卡车。 )[柯林斯高级学者辞典]
【例句4】There were twenty or so (= about twenty) people there. (那里大约有二十个人。 )[牛津高级学者辞典]
【例句5】They raised two hundred dollars or so for charity. )(他们为慈善事业筹集了大约200美元。)[剑桥高级学者辞典]
【例句6】I stopped reading after thirty or so pages. (我读了大约三十页后就停止了阅读。)[朗文当代英语词典]
【例句7】Though rates are heading down, they still offer real returns of 8% or so. (尽管利率正在下降,但它们仍然提供了8%左右的实际回报。)[柯林斯高级学者辞典]
【例句8】Matt got me a room there for a week or so when I first came here. (我第一次来这里的时候,马特给我在那里订了一个房间,住了一个星期左右。)[柯林斯高级学者辞典]
此处or是像and一样的连词,so是副词,它相当于so such/many的缩略。
or so使得前面精确表达有一定的模糊,从而避免话被说死了。
来源:弄潮儿小美
