Amount
[ə'maʊnt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion; 'an adequate amount of food for four people'.
(verb.) be tantamount or equivalent to; 'Her action amounted to a rebellion'.
贝丽尔整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) To go up; to ascend.
(n.) To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.
(n.) To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.
(v. t.) To signify; to amount to.
(n.) The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.
(n.) The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.
盖尔校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Aggregate, sum total.[2]. Effect, substance, purport, result.
編輯:曼纽尔
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Reach, rise, come, attain, extend
ANT:Fall, recede, relapse, decline, fail
SYN:Total, aggregate, sum, whole, quantity, totality, equality
ANT:Failure, decrease, deficiency, portion, instalment, deficit, insufficiency
希勒尔錄入
解釋/意思:
v.i. to mount or rise to: to result in: to come in meaning or substance to (with to).—n. the whole sum: the effect or result.
編輯:西娅
例句/造句/用法:
- Notwithstanding its simple action, its structure is complicated by a large amount of adding mechanism. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- They teach at one time that men act from class interests: but they devote an enormous amount of energy to making men conscious of their class. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Some authors have maintained that the amount of variation in our domestic productions is soon reached, and can never afterward be exceeded. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- An examination of his betting-book shows that bets to the amount of five thousand pounds had been registered by him against the favorite. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- I'll bear in mind the amount in this cheque, Mr. Betteredge, when the occasion comes round for remembering it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Any amount of singular look for me, but not a double look! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The amount of petroleum produced in the United States in 1896 was 60,960,361 barrels, the largest yield on record. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Commercial fertilizers generally contain nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash in amounts varying with the requirements of the soil. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The 8000 or so motion-picture theatres of the country employ no fewer than 40,000 people, whose aggregate annual income amounts to not less than $37,000,000. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Of this edition, up to the present period (1858), the astonishing number of TWELVE MILLIONS OF SHEETS have been issued, the weight of which amounts to upwards of 335 tons! 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The result has been the saving of vast amounts of maritime property, estimated at many millions of dollars yearly. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It is stated that the present output of the American factory of the Singer Company amounts to over 11,000 weekly, or more than half a million annually. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Resources do not depend upon gross amounts, but upon the proportion of spendings to takings. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Every day, uncontrolled fire wipes out human lives and destroys vast amounts of property; every day, fire, controlled and regulated in stove and furnace, cooks our food and warms our houses. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- His dislike of mankind, of the mass of mankind, amounted almost to an illness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The coinage of the United States mints since the organization of the government has amounted to nearly 6,000,000,000 pieces, valued at over $4,000,000,000. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Our total loss (not including Burnside's) in all these engagements amounted to 757 killed, 4,529 wounded and 330 missing. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- But it amounted to little. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- So far as ability of control, of management, was concerned, it amounted to rule-of-thumb procedure, to routine. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It amounted almost to horror, to a sort of dream terror--his horror of being observed by some other people. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- His property in money amounted to nearly three thousand pounds. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- But now his pity, with his life, was wearing thin, and the dread almost amounting to horror, was rising into being. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I was going to say that when I listened that morning, I listened with hadmiration amounting to haw. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- In 1812 a great mass of armies, amounting altogether to 600,000 men, began to move towards Russia under the supreme command of the new emperor. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- When she had gone through her rigid preliminaries, amounting to a sort of genteel platoon-exercise, she withdrew. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The revolution of 1688 having seriously interrupted the art in England, that country imported paper from Holland during that period amounting to ￡100,000. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- They were subjected, indeed, to a small poundage duty, amounting only to threepence in the hundred weight, upon their re-exportation. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- These sums, united, make a total, if my calculation is correct, amounting to forty-one, ten, eleven and a half. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
手打:内蒂