作副词，其中一个用法非常特别，用于数词前，意同approximately。可译为：大约，差不多
used before numbers to mean ‘approximately’
Some thirty people attended the funeral.
大约有三十人参加了葬礼。
I have kept birds for some 30 years.
我养鸟大约有 30 年了。
A strike by some ten thousand bank employees has ended after the government conceded some of their demands.
政府答应了他们的一些要求后，大约有一万名银行员工参加的罢工结束了。
Thirty-six trucks were loaded with some 100 tons of dried milk and bandages.
36辆卡车装了大约100吨的奶粉和绷带。
The Government has already mailed some 18 million households with details of the public offer.
政府已经向大约1,800万个家庭寄发了公开出售的详细说明。
She had rented the flat from the council some fourteen months previously.
大约14个月以前，她从地方政府那里租下了这套公寓。
The bombs ignited a fire which destroyed some 60 houses
炸弹引发的大火烧毁了大约60栋房屋。
The fire destroyed some 40,000 square kilometres of forest.
大火烧毁了大约4万平方公里的森林。
The headquarters is some 30 miles due west.
总部位于正西大约30英里处。
The city of Chengdu lies some seven hundred miles to the South-East.
成都市位于东南方大约700英里处。
Some 300 trees have been ranged along the perimeter hedge
沿着绿篱栽种着大约300棵树。
By the end of the decade, some ten million children are expected to have beenorphaned by the disease.
到这个10年结束时，大约1,000万儿童将会因为这种疾病而失去双亲。
例句均摘自《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》
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