No. 2,969 in Chinese
相當
"相當" means "quite," "fairly," or "considerably."
In a sentence
這部電影相當有趣。
This movie is quite interesting.
In this sentence, '相當' is used to mean 'quite' or 'fairly' to emphasize the degree of the movie's interesting nature.
我覺得他的表現相當好。
I think his performance was very good.
Here, '相當' acts as a modifier equivalent to 'very' or 'considerably' to describe the quality of the performance.
這兩個方案的成本相當。
The costs of these two plans are comparable.
In this example, '相當' means 'similar' or 'comparable', indicating that the costs of the two plans are approximately the same.
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