A good diamond could cost anything from £10,000 to £300,000. 一颗好的钻石可能价值1万至30万英镑。

A headteacher can earn anywhere between £25,000 and £80,000 a year, depending on the size of the school. 校长每年能赚大约25,000英镑至80,000英镑，具体要看学校的规模。

Whether good students make good teachers is arguable. 好学生能不能成为好老师还有待商榷。

This is just a ballpark figure, remember? 这只是个大概的数字，记得吗？

He died c 1850. 他于1850年前后去世。

a story set in France circa 1660 1660年前后发生在法国的故事

‘I'd say you were about 35.' ‘You're close! I'm 37.' “我猜你35岁左右。”“差不多！我37岁了。”

His guess was very close to the mark. 他的猜测非常接近。

Helen thought she could distantly recall having seen him somewhere before. 海伦认为她能大致想起以前在什么地方见过他。

reports based on erroneous information 基于错误信息的报道

The media gave the world a false impression of life in the city. 关于这个城市的生活媒体给了世人一种错误印象。

Freely translated, ‘quid pro quo' means ‘something for something'. 大致可以翻译为“以物易物”。

Could you just give us a general description of the work you do? 你能否大概地给我们描述一下你的工作。

a generalized discussion/book 广泛的讨论/概述性的书

Each talk lasts half an hour, give or take five minutes. 每段演讲半小时，时间误差在5分钟以内。

This was not the usual journalistic inaccuracy but downright lying. 这不是通常报刊杂志中出现的不准确问题，而是彻头彻尾的撒谎。

‘So are you retired now?' ‘In a manner of speaking, yes. But I still do some work.' “那么说你现在退休了？”“就算是吧。但是我仍然干些活。”

He was summoned to a meeting with the great man, in inverted commas. 他被召唤去会见这位所谓的伟人。

Eighteen thousand? That could be in the ballpark. 1.8万？大概差不多是这个数。

in the neighbourhood of £5,000 大约为5,000英镑

We caught somewhere in the region of 80 fish. 我们捉到了大约80条鱼。

The present value is in the vicinity of £120,000. 目前的价值接近12万英镑。

We'll have lunch around one-ish. 我们会在1点左右吃午饭。

I admitted to a rather liberal interpretation of the rules. 我同意对这些规定作比较灵活的解释。

This is a loose translation of the letter. 这封信的译文不严谨。

loosely translated 粗略翻译的

He is still the nominal leader of the organization. 他仍然是该组织名义上的领导人。

shares with a nominal value of £1,000 票面价值为1,000英镑的股票

John Robbins is nominally in charge of the investigation. 约翰·罗宾斯名义上负责此次调查。

Data analysis is an art, not an exact science.

‘You're leaving, aren't you?' ‘Not exactly, I'm just going on holiday.' ‘你要离开，是吧？’‘不全对，我只是去度假。’

I'm told that most of what's been reported in the newspapers is not too far off the mark. 我被告知报纸上报道的大部分内容是基本准确的。

He must be sixty odd (=about 60 years old). 他肯定有60岁左右了。

The project seems to have gone a little off track.

She was paid something in the order of £15,000 for the story. 她因这本小说得到了大约15,000英镑的报酬。

They spent an hour or so searching for the missing file. 他们花了大约一个小时时间寻找不见了的文件。

The job won't take long – about twenty minutes or so. 这活儿不会花太长时间，大约20分钟左右就行。

Their calculations were out by about two million pounds. 他们的计算结果有误，大约差两百万英镑。

There are, roughly speaking, three possible solutions to our problem. 大致来说，我们的问题有3种可能的解决方案。

skewed figures 不准确的数字

You will earn somewhere between £20,000 and £25,000. 你将挣到20,000到25,000英镑。

sweeping conclusions/generalizations/proposals 笼统的结论/归纳/建议

You'll end up paying an extra five per cent or thereabouts. 你最终得多付5%左右。

The bill came to £13.08 but they rounded it down to the nearest pound and charged us £13. 账单上是13.08英镑，但他们抹去尾数收了我们13英镑。

uninformed comments 无根据的评论

That is simply untrue. 那根本不是真的。

Simon had only a vague idea of where she worked. 西蒙对她在哪里工作只有一个模糊的概念。

a few inches wide of the target 偏离目标几英寸远

Gonzalez should have scored, but he shot the ball wide. 冈萨雷斯本应该得分的，但球射偏了。

wild accusations/claims 胡乱的指责/轻率的断言

The two women were wrongly accused of murder. 这两位妇女被错误地指控犯有谋杀罪。