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单词 thereabouts
释义 there·abouts
\ˈ ̷ ̷əˌbau̇ts, ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷\ adverb
or there·about \-t\
Etymology: thereabout from Middle English ther aboute, from Old English thǣr abūtan, from thǣr there + abūtan about; thereabouts from Middle English ther aboutes, from ther aboute + -s (as in dayes days)
1. : near that place : in the neighborhood
 < film set in the Mojave desert and the mountains thereaboutSydney (Australia) Bulletin >
 < stayed there or thereabouts for several days >
2.
 a. : near that time or date
  < got home at six o'clock or thereabouts >
  < vignettes seen through the French illustrations of the 1850's or thereabouts — Irving Kolodin >
 b. : near that number : near that degree : near that quantity
  < living in Wessex, off and on, for thirty years or thereabout — H.M.Tomlinson >
3. usually thereabout, archaic : about that : in connection with that
 < they were much perplexed thereabout — Lk 24:4 (Authorized Version) >
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