d. I read only a page or so.

                                             —A NEW ENGLISH-CHINESE DICTIONARY 

                                                    Joint Publishing Co. H.K. 1st Ed. 1975

我只念了一页左右。

e. He must be forty or so (i.e. about forty years old).

他一定有四十来岁。

f. Around a million people crowded the foreshores of Sydney harbor to welcome in the New Year and the beginning of a new millennium.

                                                           —CHINA DAILY, Jan, 1,2000 p.8 

大约有一百万人聚集在悉尼港口海滨，迎接新年和新千禧的开始。

(二）用 dozens/tens/scores, hundreds, hundreds upon hundreds, thousands, millions, billions of . . .，thousands upon thousands of, hundreds of millions of...等形式表示“数十个、 数百个、成百上千、数千个、数百万个、数十亿个、成千上万、 亿万个”等，例如：

a. Hundreds of high-rise buildings have been set up in Beijing since 1979.

自1979年以来有数百栋高层楼房在北京拔地而起。

b. Hundreds of New Year's Day celebrants jump into Lake Michigan at noon on Saturday along the shoreline of Milwaukee.

                                                          —CHINA DAILY, Jan. 3 , 2000 p. 12 

数百名新年庆贺者在周六中午沿着米尔沃基市的湖岸跳进密歇根湖里游泳。

c. Thousands upon thousands of people in Tangshan were killed or injured instantly in the strong earthquake in 1976.

唐山在1976年那次大地震中有成千上万的人瞬间被压死或者受伤。

(三）用 a lot of, a flock of, a host of, plenty of, a sea of, a great many, a great number of等表示“许多、一大堆、不计其数、大量、大批”等不定数量，例如：

a. We are faced with a host of difficulties.

我们面临着一大堆困难。

b. There are plenty of eggs in the basket.

蓝子里有许多鸡蛋。

c. There are a sea of colorful flags in Tiananmen Square on grand holidays.

在盛大节日里，天安门广场上彩旗如海。

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