approximately

adv.大约；近似地

Approximately it has 400 pages when this book is completed. 当这本书完成时大约有四百页。

There were approximately fifty people there. 那儿大约有五十个人。

He is approximately forty years old. 他快四十岁了。

approximately是程度副词,意思是“非常接近,差不多就是”,强调其精确性,而其间的差距因其实际上并不重要而可以忽略不计。

由于approximately强调“接近准确”,所以不可用在表示确切的数字的单词如three or four times, lunchtime, midnight等之前。

approximately一般用于所修饰的词(如数词)之前。

approximately不用于比较等级。