somewhat的意思

基本释义

• pron 一点儿
• adv 有点

  more than a little but not very

例句

1. Things have changed somewhat since then.

   从那时候起，情况就有些不一样了。

2. He is somewhat embarrassed.

   他稍微有点窘迫。

3. We have arrived somewhat late,I am afraid .

   恐怕我们到得晚了点。

4. The price is somewhat higher than expected.

   这个价格比预料的要高点。

5. The cake we made was somewhat of a failure.

   我们做的蛋糕不大成功。

6. The lake lies somewhat to the west.

   这湖有点靠西。

近义词

英英释义

adv 1. to a moderately sufficient extent or degree e.g. pretty big pretty bad jolly decent of him the shoes are priced reasonably he is fairly clever with computers Synonym: reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, fairly, middling, passably 2. to a small degree or extent e.g. his arguments were somewhat self-contradictory the children argued because one slice of cake was slightly larger than the other Synonym: slightlymore or less

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