approximately

英 [ə'prɒksɪmətli] 美 [ə'prɑːksɪmətli]

• adv. 大约；近似地

双解释义

adv. (副词)

1. 近似,大约

   nearly; about

英英释义

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"
   

例句

用作副词 (adv.)

1. The plane will be taking off in approximately five minutes.
   飞机大约五分钟后就起飞。
2. Approximately it has 400 pages when this book is completed.
   当这本书完成时大约有四百页。
3. There were approximately fifty people there.
   那儿大约有五十个人。
4. He is approximately forty years old.
   他快四十岁了。

常见句型

用作副词 (adv.)

用作状语

1. There were approximately 100 people there.
   那里大约有100个人。
2. This job will take approximately two month, and cost approximately 4000 dollars.
   这项工作所需的时间大约为两个月,费用大约为4000美元。
3. The journey took approximately two weeks.
   旅行大约用了两周。
4. There are approximately 12 million migrants with their dependants living in the EU countries.
   大约有1200万流动工人带着家属居住在欧盟诸国。
5. π is approximately 3.1416.π
   约等于 3.1416 。
6. His salary is approximately 85 dollars a week.
   他的薪水大约一星期85美元。
7. The prices of all houses inflate at approximately the same rate.
   所有房子的价格以大致相同的价格飞涨。
8. That's approximately correct.
   那大体上是正确的。
9. His story was at least approximately true.
   他讲的事至少大体上是真的。
10. St. Jame's Park is approximately a long triangle.
    圣·詹姆斯公园近似一个长长的三角形。

词汇搭配

• approximate 近似的
• approximately equal 近似等于,近似相等...
• approximately commercial value 概算的出售价格,概算...

词语用法

adv. (副词)

1. approximately是程度副词,意思是“非常接近,差不多就是”,强调其精确性,而其间的差距因其实际上并不重要而可以忽略不计。
2. 由于approximately强调“接近准确”,所以不可用在表示确切的数字的单词如three or four times, lunchtime, midnight等之前。
3. approximately一般用于所修饰的词(如数词)之前。
4. approximately不用于比较等级。

词义辨析

adv. (副词)

approximately, about, around, roughly

• 参见about条。

almost，nearly，about，approximately，around，roughly

• 这些副词均有“大约，差不多”之意。
• almost指在程度上相差很小，差不多。
• nearly与almost含义基本相同，侧重指数量、时间或空间上的接近。
• 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。
• 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。
• around多用于非正式场合，常见于美国英语。
• roughly指按粗略估计，常代替about。

近反义词

【近义词】

• about
• near
• nearly