an estimate of a number or an amount that is almost correct, but not exact 近似值;粗略估算 That's just an approximation, you understand. 你知道那仅仅是近似值。 An approximation of the numbers expected to attend would be 350. 预计参加人数大约为350人。 This is the nearest approximation of cost that they can give us. 这是他们能够给我们的最接近的费用估计。 We do not have the true figures so we will have to make some approximations. 我们没有确切的数字,因此只能作些粗略的估计。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- accurate
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- approximation (of/to something)
a thing that is similar to something else, but is not exactly the same 类似事物 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- accurate
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