大约

在周围

bat around───详细讨论；到处游荡

cat around───到处闲逛

sat around───无所事事

bats around───详细讨论；到处游荡

cast around───（精神或视觉上）四处寻找

fart around───到处放屁

wait around───呆呆地等；空等

The police dispatcher received the call at around 10:30 a.m.───警察局的调度员在早上十点半左右接到电话。

teaching day finishes at around 4 p.m.───教学日在下午4点左右结束。

I had another spontaneous miscarriage at around the 16th to 18th week.───在大约第16至18周时我又一次自然流产了。

Inflation should be pegged at around 2% a year to see the economy "chugging along" , according to Martin Ellis, chief economist at Halifax.───Halifax的首席经济学家MartinEllis认为，在一个平稳发展的经济中，通货膨胀的应该保持在每年2%左右。

Polls come and go, as politicians like to say, but the two big parties seem to be trading fairly consistently at around six points apart.───政客们常说民意无常，但是这两大党似乎一直在你追我赶，彼此间的差距总是保持在6%左右。

Critically, Ford's market share, unlike those of its Detroit rivals, seems to be stabilising, at around 14%.───最关键的是与同处于底特律的竞争对手们不同，福特的市场份额似乎稳定在[font=Arial]14%[font=宋体]的水平。

Over the last four years, the price of the healthiest foods has increased at around twice the rate of energy-dense junk food.───再过去的四年中，健康食品的价格已经增至那些高热量垃圾食品费率的两倍左右。

While infants seem to be born with an ear fine-tuned for language, this starts to subtly change at around 11 months of age.───尽管婴儿似乎天生具有对语言敏感的耳朵，但从大约11个月后，这种能力就会发生些许的改变。

At around ten past seven, we came out of our room to hear sounds of music coming from the direction of the dining hall.───晚上七点十分左右，我们一走出房间，远远的就从餐厅方向传来音乐之声。

His personal wealth is estimated at around $100 million.

The level of unemployment remains fairly constant at around 10%.

The teaching day finishes at around 4pm.

Light travels at around 300,000,000 metres per second.

At around 1.00 p.m. we reached our final destination.

His illness began to manifest itself at around this time.

The sun broke through at around lunch time.

A conservative estimate puts annual sales at around $100 million.

I'll be back at around 5 o'clock.