一、详细释义:
adv.
大约
例句:
The journey will take around ten days.
这次旅行大约要用十天时间。
例句:
These four groups of diseases account for around 80% of all NCD deaths.
这四类疾病占所有非传染性疾病死亡的大约80%。
在周围,在附近
例句:
Even when those around her panic she always maintains an olympian calm.
即使周围的人都惊惶不已,她也总是保持着超然的镇静。
例句:
Let me see if he is around.
我看看他是否在附近。
旋转
例句:
The windmill kept turning around.
风车不停地转动着。
例句:
The boat started to spin around in the water.
船开始在水中打旋。
到处,四处
例句:
He backed away from the edge, looking all around at the flat horizon.
他从边上退了回来,环顾着周围平直的地平线。
例句:
My mornings are spent rushing around after him.
我每天早上都跟着他到处跑。
prep.
在周围,在附近
例句:
They sat around the table.
他们围桌而坐。
例句:
Today she wore her hair down around her shoulders.
今天她的头发披在肩上。
在某处
例句:
Just having lots of people around that you can talk to is important.
有许多能交谈的人在身边很重要。
例句:
You see very little of this wine around these days.
近来很少看见这种葡萄酒。
围绕
例句:
They went around the town, not through it.
他们没有穿过而是绕着该镇而行。
例句:
The earth goes around the sun.
地球绕着太阳运转。
到处,四处
例句:
I've been walking around Moscow and the town is terribly quiet.
我在莫斯科到处游逛,城里非常安静。
例句:
They milled around the ballroom with video cameras.
他们扛着摄像机在舞厅里转来转去。
二、词义辨析:
about,around,round
这些词均有“在周围、在附近”之意。about既可表静态,也可表动态。around主要用于美国,静态或动态均可。round主要用于英国,多半指动态。
三、词义辨析:
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指按精略估计,常代替about。
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