thereabout
adv. 在那附近, 大约
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释义与例句
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1.
About or near that place.
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2.
About or around that date or time.
Dinner will be ready at six-thirty or thereabout.
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3.
About or near to that condition or quality.
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Approximately that number or quantity.
The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, right? Yes, thereabout.
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About that or those: concerning it or them.
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Near to that activity or situation.
过时 比喻
词汇关系
同义词 1
词源
From Middle English ther-aboute, ther-abouten (“of a place or an object: around there, in its vicinity; surrounding it; nearby, neighbouring; here and there, throughout that place; of an action, matter, etc.: about, concerning; of an amount or distance: approximately, more or less; of time: about then, around that time”) [and other forms], from Old English þǣrābūtan, þǣronbūtan, from þǣr (“there”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *só (“this; that”) + *-r) + abūtan, onbūtan (“about; round about; on; on the outside”) (from on- (prefix meaning ‘on; upon; there; thither; to’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- (“on; onto”)) + būtan (“just, merely, only”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep- + *úd (“away; out; outwards; upwards”))). The English word is analysable as there + about. The word is attested earlier than thereabouts.
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