adv.大約；近似地

Approximately it has 400 pages when this book is completed. 當(dāng)這本書完成時(shí)大約有四百頁(yè)。

There were approximately fifty people there. 那兒大約有五十個(gè)人。

He is approximately forty years old. 他快四十歲了。

approximately是程度副詞,意思是“非常接近,差不多就是”,強(qiáng)調(diào)其精確性,而其間的差距因其實(shí)際上并不重要而可以忽略不計(jì)。

由于approximately強(qiáng)調(diào)“接近準(zhǔn)確”,所以不可用在表示確切的數(shù)字的單詞如three or four times, lunchtime, midnight等之前。

approximately一般用于所修飾的詞(如數(shù)詞)之前。

approximately不用于比較等級(jí)。