副词通常修饰动词、形容词、副词,实际上,修饰“数字”通常也用副词,例:
- The book is approximately 100 pages long.这本书大约有100页长。
您或许认为approximately不是修饰数字,而是修饰is,表示“大约是”,那么您再看这一句:
Exactly three months after the killing, police had what they needed.(NBC, 2019)
显然exactly修饰three months,也就是修饰数字。
修饰数字的常用副词包括: