for some of those? fft A 7, ii#any, M
7
71 some: 1 don’t want any. 0 Do you have any of the
larger ones? fl&MA%M # ®7ftSi f«5J A 7 tibffl
some: Would you like some?
0 Weren’t you looking for some of those? 2 a part of the whole number or
amount being considered gp A; IfW; Wf &; 7:
AZ1 these
students are good, but some
work harder than others, fir
Some of the music was weird, AilfeATf A'f70
117m ... and then some (informal) and
a lot more than that jet7li:;&
&lff!)777o
■ adv. /sAm/ 1 used
before numbers to mean ‘approximately’ ( MfiftMltu,
approximately ) Alfi ^7 g : Some thirty people attended the funeral,
A ^ A H 7A#lP 7#fL 2 (NAmE, informal) to some degree Ilk; A,£: He
needs feeding up some. ffeff A-'ik 0 ‘Are you
finding the work any easier?’ ‘Some. ’
-some
suffix 1 (in adjectives # tl}) producing;
likely to *7|jta ( ) ---(ft: fearsome 7Mb 0 quarrel
some #-R7 2 (in nouns £
iSJ) a group of the number mentioned • • ■ A 7 ^ • • • 7 ) — M: a
foursome 0
=
someone: Somebody should have
told me. j£Zi£AA JnH?Hs7;llo 0 She
thinks she’s really somebody in that
car.MUh, 4*±M7,
MSJfcSjft^A&To Em
NOBODY
'some day (also some-day) adv. at some time in
the future & A — A; A~* B ; # A: Some day he’ll be famous. ,&A~ Allfe#fft£lfto some-how 0-w /lSAmhau/
adv.
1
(also MAmf informal some-way, some-ways) in a way that is not
known or certain IA;$;f7A^; ( ^cA& ) : We must
stop him from seeing her somehow. 7 If 'a If > He f P 7 it life fio 0 Somehow
or other I must get a new job. He M H A i& He 1# fr A 17 „ 2 for a
reason that you do not know or understand b 7®# A $P(ftJK®; 77PAff7; 7$nf£&Jlfe:
Somehow, I don’t feel I can trust him. 7' 7R A
It A, HS f§7< f bit It life „ 0 She looked different somehow. 7 Tfl 7
life, Mf j:i
SOme-One On /'sAmwAn/ (also some-body) pron.
1 a person who is not known or mentioned by
name ^ A : There’s someone at the door, f] p 11
A . 0
Someone’s left their bag behind. A
AlEbZ^T 7» 0 It’s time for someone new (= a new person) to take over.
M Ai£l&7§rAA7‘7o o It couldn’t have been me—it must have been someone
else (= a different person). IP
77T
M M He 0 Should
we call a doctor or
someone? He If] W 7 g
it 7 A A ft 7 (ft ? HT3W3 The difference between
someone and anyone is the same as the difference between some and any. Look at
the notes there. * someone fP anyone (Hj [X |lj fi some fP any fftEliJlBISh
##\tW is] T 7j7Mo 2 an
important person ft A ffth He was a small-time lawyer keen to be someone,
fife Alt £££#&&&
ilrfi — compare nobody n.
some-place /'SAmpleis/
adv., pron. (NAmE) = somewhere-.
It has to go someplace. t£—/ElllilAff
£.JlfeA‘ T o o Can’t you do that someplace else? E17717 It 7 tHlk7itbA7,%? 0 We need to find someplace to live.
som-er-sault
/'SAmasoilt;
NAmE -mars-/ noun, verb mnoun a movement in which sb turns over
completely, with their feet over their head, on the ground or in the airigffl; to do/turn a somersault i&'MM
O
He turned back somersaults. llfefftT AfiiASltBo
0 (figurative) Her heart did a complete somersault when she saw him.
M—JSLftfe, filiMr—To ft verb [V, usually +adv./prep.\
to turn over completely in the air 1ft ffl ; lift
$ M : The car hit the
kerb and somersaulted into the air. H A It 3\ s, & %7 ±, MSI®
TiHAo
something (Hr /•sAmGiq/ pron.,
adv.
mpron. 1 a thing that
is not known or mentioned by
name ^ ^^ : We stopped for something to eat.
$c
If] ff- A o O Give me something to
do. Hc.&
75 j17BEo 0 There’s something wrong
with the TV. fill It 7 7 o 0 There’s something about this place that
frightens me. IzAtfe A W ^ J L it He 0
o Don’t just
stand there. Do
something! |lj fE IP J
L 7' #, lift ^ ft ^
BE ! 0 His name is Alan
something (= I don’t know his
other name). ftfeWxl^ 7NJtffcft ^ (tfj0 0 She’s
a professor of something or other (= I’m not sure what) at
some fact or opinion worth
considering in) what he says. jifeift-SrW
AilSo o It’s quite something (= a thing that you should feel
happy about) to have a job at all these days, in 7W17 7 ff $£ @[ Al M. 7. 0 ‘We shou/d Anis/t by tomorrow.’
‘That’s something (= a good thing), anyway.’ “Hell'll7” “IPlb.l7Rio ”
3
(informal) used to show that a description or an amount, etc. is
not exact ( M )
A
3ft, lE/fr: She called at something after
somethings (= people between
thirty and forty years old) -3PWH7Jl#W}AWfrWMiJ o It tastes something like melon.
& 0 0 ^hey
pay six pounds an hour. Something
like that, life 111
ASMPiito O She found herself something
of a (=
to some degree a) celebrity, bfe
A7»
0 The programme’s something to do with
(= in some way about) the environment. jAJH-
J 7 If ft ^ 7 § o O He gave her a wry look, something
between amusement and regret. llfemj/iifbtBHW
§ fL# fttfe—8R, j&JifklWo [ESI make some
thing of yourself to be successful in
life
something else 1 a different thing;
another thing 1) fth - -17 ♦: I1! W 7 M: He said something
else that I thought was interesting. Itfei#(ft
M ftH -17^ He ^1# IliJfeWWc.S.o 2 (informal) a person, a thing or an event that is much
better than others of a similar type tbfelft A ( ^ ) : I’ve seen some fine players, but she’s
something else. IfelMtH^^0
a adv. (non-standard) used with an adjective
to emphasize a statement ( A W 7] 71 )
1M , 7 # : She was
swearing something terrible. some-time /'sAmtaim/ adv., ad/'.
■
adv.
(also some
time) at
a time that you do not know exactly or has not yet been decided &
^ B7 ( 7 5ft W & A fift ^ ) : I
saw him sometime last summer. A 7 % Alt N-l^fiMllfeo 0 We must get together sometime.
Hcin-^^Hctfft-Nm-Tc
madj. [only
before noun] (formal) 1 used to refer to what
sb used to be ( fa ^ A if ££ M ••• ) AUf&lft • — J® W : Thomas Atkins,
sometime vicar of this parish AUtlXlAftif 2 (NAmE) used
to refer to what sb does occasionally ( lb S A |u] ic 7 K 7 ) 7 7j: a
sometime contributor to this
magazine —171^ 7 A Tl
M(ft##
Some-times
O-w /'SAmtaimz/
adv.
occasionally rather than all of the time A fft; |ViJ
A: Sometimes I go by car. W He Ok
7 A o 0 He sometimes writes
to me. life IS 7 f n He A 71 fg 0
o I like to be on my own sometimes. WWl^Hc#^—^7Af#iio some-way /'sAmwei/ (also some-ways) adv. (NAmE,
informal) = somehow(I)
Some what /'SAmwDt; NAmE-WAt! adv.
to some degree W7A; fHlft
ESIZl
rather: / was somewhat
surprised to see him. EPJllfeHcMllli^lfo 0 The
situation has changed somewhat since we last met. SHcinAlAEMWAlf
iMlKffco o What happened to