grosso modo

短语

[法] 大体上

词形变化

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释义与例句

adv.
  1. 1.

    roughly, circa or approximately

    1980. Henry Mehlberg, Robert Sonné Cohen. Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of Science. p. 211. The fact that event B takes place in the interval separating events A and C has an invariant significance, which may be expressed grosso modo by saying that events which are closer together have more effects in common.

    1985. Edward W. Said. Orientalism Reconsidered. Cultural Critique, 1, pp. 94-95. Still others criticize Orientalism for falsifying the nature of Islam: these are, grosso modo, the fundamentalists.

词源

From Latin grossō modō.

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