The main reason for rehearsals is to have words that are roughly approximate to the moment.

排练的主要原因是要排演真正那一刻到来时要说的话。

Your story only approximates to the real facts.

【approximate】你所说的只是接近事实真相。

This figure approximates to a quarter of the UK’s annual consumption.

【approximate】这个数字接近英国年消耗量的四分之一。

In certain respects, the views which I shall be setting forth approximate to materialism; in certain others, they approximate to its opposite.

在某些方面， 我将要阐述的观点接近于唯物主义； 在某些其他情况下， 它们接近于它的对立面。

Vespasian's political rehabilitation  ensued and in 63 AD he was finally granted the governorship of the province of Africa, approximating to modern-day Tunisia and parts of western Libya.

维斯帕芗随后获得了政治上的平反， 并于公元 63 年最终被任命为非洲省的总督，该省靠近今天的突尼斯和利比亚西部的部分地区。

The nearer one gets to the top of the organization, the closer one’s work station will approximate to this supposed ideal: in tribute to the quality of thinking that, ideally, one would do there.

越接近高层的人，坐的位置就越接近这种假想中的状态：理想上，他能够在那里贡献优质的观点。

By this time he would approximate to a man's full judgment, and that painful aspect of her as one who had deluded his raw immaturity would have passed for ever.

到这个时候，他将接近于一个男人的完整判断力，而她作为一个欺骗了他原始不成熟的人的痛苦方面将永远消失。

After listening to it in all kinds of winds, night and day, season after season, I think I could approximate to my position on the mountain by this pine music alone.

在各种风中， 日日夜夜，一季又一季地听过， 我想单凭这松曲， 我就可以大概地知道我在山上的位置了。

His light pajamas had been but little protection from the chill dampness of the jungle, and only that side of him which was pressed against the warm body of his shaggy companion approximated to comfort.

他的轻便睡衣几乎无法抵御丛林寒冷潮湿的环境，只有紧贴着毛茸茸的同伴温暖身体的那一侧才接近舒适。

This species also gives forth the finest music to the wind. After listening to it in all kinds of winds, night and day, season after season, I think I could approximate to my position on the mountains by this pine-music alone.

这个物种也会随着风发出最好的音乐。在各种风中，日日夜夜，一季又一季地听过，我想单凭这首松乐，我就可以大致接近我在山上的位置了。