Word · Frequency #19149
thereabouts
那时前后；大约在那时
near that time or date
用于指时间或日期附近。
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Synonym of thereabout:
与“thereabout”同义。
在那附近；附近；与“thereabout”同义。；在那附近；大约；上下
In use
The meeting starts at 10 o'clock or thereabouts.
They live in the village or somewhere thereabouts.
He earns fifty thousand dollars a year or thereabouts.
[time/amount/place] or thereabouts
or thereabouts 接在时间、数量或地点后，表示大约或附近；如 in London or thereabouts 表示“在伦敦附近”。
The meeting starts at nine or thereabouts.
会议九点左右开始。
there or thereabouts
固定口语表达，常用逗号与主句隔开，用来粗略估计数量、时间或程度。
The total is $800, there or thereabouts.
总额大约是 800 美元。
Common mistakes
He lives in thereabouts.He lives thereabouts.
thereabouts 是副词，表示“在那附近”，本身已包含地点关系，前面不需要加介词 in。中文的“在”容易让你误加 in，但英语里直接说 live thereabouts 即可。
Thereabouts is very quiet.The area thereabouts is very quiet.
thereabouts 是副词，不能作主语。要表达“那附近的地方”时，需要补充名词 area，再用 thereabouts 作后置定语，即 the area thereabouts。
It costs thereabouts 50 dollars.It costs 50 dollars or thereabouts.
表示“大约”时，thereabouts 不能像中文“大约”那样放在数字前，而要放在数字后，并通常与 or 连用，如 50 dollars or thereabouts。
Connections
Collocations
- or thereabouts
- 大约；左右
- The job pays £40,000 a year or thereabouts.这份工作的年薪在四万英镑左右。
- there or thereabouts
- 差不多；大致
- The journey takes two hours, there or thereabouts.这段路程大约需要两个小时。
- somewhere thereabouts
- 在那附近的某个地方
- She lives in York or somewhere thereabouts.她住在约克或者那附近的地方。
Idioms & figurative uses
- or thereabouts
- 大约；左右；前后The interview lasted an hour or thereabouts.面试大约持续了一个小时左右。
- somewhere thereabouts
- 在那附近；大约在那个地方We parked near the market, and the restaurant is somewhere thereabouts.我们把车停在市场附近，餐厅就在那附近某个地方。
Synonyms
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把它拆成 there（那里）+ about（大约）+ s，记住“大约就在那里附近”，时间、数量也能说“大约在那前后”。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：正式书面语、日常口语 thereabouts 单独出现时多用于较正式或书面表达，表示“在那附近”或“在那前后”；固定搭配 there or thereabouts 则在口语中也较常见，表示“差不多、左右”。
Pronunciation & Spelling
All these words share the written ending '-outs' and the spoken /aʊts/. Hereabouts and whereabouts are the closest to thereabouts, with the same '-abouts' ending and /baʊts/ sound. Beware that 'routes' often sounds like 'roots' (/ruːts/), despite its spelling.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.