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"
   

1. or so是什么意思

1. 大约,左右：everso 非常,极其 |orso 大约,左右 |so that 以便,为使;所以,因此

2. 大约：or rather 更精确地说,倒不如说 |orso 大约 | other from 不同于

3. 大约,差不多：or rather 毋宁说;更确切地说 |orso 大约,差不多 | other than 除...之外;不同于;非

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4. 左右：24.lose popularity with... 在......中失去流行度或受欢迎度 | 1.orso 左右 | 2.make sense 有意义

The work will take ten days more or less.

这项工作大约要花十天时间。

I'll see you at 9 a.m. or thereabouts.

我在九点或大约九点时见你。

The 100 or so flats subdivided into cage homes are estimated to accommodate 5,000 people.

据估计,目前约有100座细分为笼屋的公寓,住着5000人.

Britons'understanding of the risks has gradually worsened over the past decade or so.

在过去的大约十年里,英国人对风险的认知已在逐渐减少.

Completion of this bridge is expected in a year or so.

这座桥一年半载可望竣工.

Why don't you walk the dog round for half an hour or so? I t'll give you some exercise, and probably calm you.

你怎么不带着狗儿去遛半小时左右 呢 ?这可以使你锻炼一下身体, 或许会使你平静下来.

We stayed for an hour or so.

我们停留了一小时左右.

He will return in a week or so.

他在一星期左右以后回来.

We felt a little constraint with the new teacher for the first day or so.

在开头一两天,我们对新教师感到有点拘束.

Though rates are heading down, they still offer real returns of 8% or so.

尽管利率在下降，它们仍然能提供8%左右的实际收益率。

Very little was done to progress the case in the first 10 or so months after K was charged.

在K被指控后最初的10个月左右，这个案子进展缓慢。

I have seen him walking down to the shops a mile or so away.

我看见他朝大约一英里以外的商店走去了。

They felt that, at 69 or so, Mr Peters was past his prime.

他们觉得69岁左右的彼得斯先生已经风光不再了。

We just sat and talked for half an hour or so.

我们只是坐了一会,聊了大约半小时.

In a day or so he will be as good as new.

他大概一天工夫就会恢复过来。

He did buy me those daffodils a week or so ago.

他确实在大约一个星期前给我买了那些水仙花。

Matt got me a room there for a week or so when I first came here.

我初次来到这里的时候，马特找了个房间让我住了大约一个星期。

She reeled off the titles of a dozen or so of the novels.

她脱口说出十几本小说的书名。

Many of the 100,000 or so families who lost their homes in the earthquake have still not been rehoused.

有10万户左右的家庭在地震中失去了家园，其中许多家庭还没有得到安置。

There was nothing more he wanted, or so he thought.

他再无所求，或者说他是这么想的。

Every minute or so I could hear a snap, a crack and a crash as another tree went down.

每隔大约一分钟，我就会听见又一棵树咔嚓一声折断、哗啦一下倒地的声音。

We seemed to manage okay for the first year or so after David was born.

戴维出生后的头一两年，我们似乎还能对付。

Some seed varieties germinate fast, so check every day or so.

有一些种子发芽快，所以差不多每天得察看一下。

Usually when we're six months or so into a recovery, confidence begins to build.

通常我们在恢复约6个月后信心开始建立。

Dunk new plants in a bucket of water for an hour or so before planting.

栽种新植物之前将它们在水桶中浸泡一小时左右。

We will have to wait a week or so before we know whether the operation is a success.

我们还得等一周左右才能知道手术是否成功。

It was only an hour or so later that I discovered that my gun was missing.

仅仅约一个小时之后，我发现我的枪不见了。

Great clouds of black smoke were rising for several hundred feet or so.

大片的黑色烟云升至大约几百英尺的空中。

I would put her age at about 50 or so.

我认为她的年龄在50岁上下。

The war had ended only a month or so before.

战争大约一个月前才刚刚结束。

The driver usually spends four hours or so helping to load and prepare his lorry.

司机通常花4小时左右的时间帮忙装货和打理货车。