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/ˈsʌmweə/ |
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1 | used for referring to a place when you do not know or say exactly where 某处 |
| I think I’ ve seen you before somewhere. 我想我以前在某个地方见过你。 |
| I’ ve lost my watch, but it must be somewhere in the house. 我的手表不见了,不过一定就在家里的某个地方。 |
| There’ s a restaurant somewhere around here that’ s supposed to be good. 这附近某个地方有个据说不错的饭店。 |
| I had to find somewhere to sit down. 我得找个地方坐下。 |
| somewhere nice/safe/different etc Let’ s go somewhere nice for dinner. 我们去个好地方吃晚饭吧。 |
| or somewhere (=or a similar place) Dan’ s working for a company in Denmark or Norway or somewhere. 或某个类似的地方 |
| somewhere else If we don’ t provide a good service, customers will go somewhere else. 如果我们不能提供好的服务,顾客就会去别的地方。 |
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2 | used when giving an amount that is not exact but that is a little more or less 大约;大概 |
| somewhere around/between/over etc I’ d expect to be earning somewhere between £20,000 and £25,000. 我希望能挣到20,000到25,000英镑。 |
| I’ d say there were somewhere around 50 people at the meeting. 我觉得大约有50人出席了会议。 |
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- | be getting somewhere |
| to be making some progress |
| 有些进展 |
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| I think at last we’ re getting somewhere. 我想最终我们取得了一些进展。 |
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