amount

英 [ə'maʊnt] 美 [ə'maʊnt]

• n. 数量；总额
• vi. 总计；等于

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [U][C]金额

   a sum of money;a quantity of money

2. [U][C]数量；数额

   a quantity of sth

v. (动词)

1. vi. 合计,共计

   add up to or total sth

2. vi. 等同,接近

   be equal to or equivalent of sth

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 金额，数额，总额
2. 数量，量，数值，值
3. 总数，总和
4. 结果
5. 效果
6. 要旨
7. 余量，含量
8. 程度，大小，质量

v. 动词

1. 相当于，等同
2. 合计，共计
3. 成为
4. 产生…结果
5. 接近

英英释义

Noun:

1. a quantity of money;

   "he borrowed a large sum"
   "the amount he had in cash was insufficient"
   

2. the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion;

   "an adequate amount of food for four people"
   

3. how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify

4. a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers

Verb:

1. be tantamount or equivalent to;

   "Her action amounted to a rebellion"
   

2. add up in number or quantity;

   "The bills amounted to $2,000"
   "The bill came to $2,000"
   

3. develop into;

   "This idea will never amount to anything"
   "nothing came of his grandiose plans"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. A petrol gauge shows the amount of petrol left in a car.
   汽油表指示出汽车里所剩的汽油数量。
2. He has a large amount of mail to answer every day.
   他每天有大量的信件要回复。
3. Remember to tell the guest the amount of the bill.
   记得告诉客人帐单的总额。
4. We charge one percent commission on the total amount.
   我们收取支票总额的1%25作为手续费。

用作不及物动词 (vi.)

1. The total cost of repairs amounted to 100 dollars.
   修理费用总计一百美元。
2. The number of the injured amounted to over one hundred.
   受伤人数总计一百多。
3. Her answer amounted to a complete refusal.
   她的答复等于是完全拒绝。
4. This amounts to doing the whole thing over again.
   这就等于要把整个事情重做一遍。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. What is the full amount I owe you?
   我总共欠你多少钱？
2. He could not pay the full amount he owed.
   他偿还不起他所欠的全部债款。
3. Just remember the amount and pay me back later.
   记住这个数目，以后还我好了。
4. Vitamins should be taken in small amounts .
   维生素应该小剂量地服用。
5. Your information is large in amount but poor in quality.
   你的资料量多质差。
6. Food was provided in varying amounts.
   食物的供应量变化不定。
7. The information is of much amount.
   这情报很重要。
8. I didn't expect the bill to come to this amount .
   我没料到账单达到这个金额。

～+ prep. -phrase

1. The amount of your bill is $252.
   你的账单总额为美金252元。
2. The amount of this year's revenue is less than that of last year.
   今年国家的岁入比去年少。
3. The amount of lift increases with the speed of the aircraft.
   空运量随着飞机速度的增快而增加。
4. The amount of resistance he met astonished him.
   他遇到的阻力之大使他感到惊讶。
5. The amount of his remarks is that we are hopelessly beaten.
   他的话总的意思是我们彻底失败了。
6. This is the amount of what she said.
   这是她所说的要点。
7. We estimate, month by month, the amounts of cash that will be needed.
   我们月月估算所需的现金额。
8. You wouldn't believe the amount of trouble I've had with this car.
   你简直难以相信这辆车给我那么多的麻烦。
9. I was horrified by the amount of work I had to do.
   有那么多的工作要做，真把我吓坏了。
10. Now the amount of land irrigated is four times that of 10 years ago.
    现在农田的灌溉面积为10年前的4倍。
11. A great amount of money has received.
    一大笔款到了。
12. A great amount of our investments are in property.
    我们的大量资金投在房地产上。
13. I drank a large amount of tea.
    我喝了很多茶。
14. She was carrying a large amount of cash.
    她携带了大量的现金。
15. A million dollars is a large amount of money to me.100
    万美元对我来说是一笔巨款。
16. A large amount of money is spent on tobacco every year.
    每年要在烟草上花一大笔钱。
17. She spends a large amount of money on clothes every year.
    她每年花大量的钱买衣服。
18. He must often memorize large amounts of material.
    他必须经常熟记大量材料。
19. Large amounts of money were spent on the bridge.
    几大笔款子用在了这座桥上。
20. We've received a great amount of information.
    我们收到了大量信息。
21. You should get the greatest possible amount of information.
    你应该搞到尽量多的情报。
22. Her case has attracted enormous amount of public sympathy.
    她的讼案已经引起了公众的巨大同情。
23. Each year the world spends an enormous amount of money on armaments.
    全世界每年都要在军备上花费大量金钱。
24. He paid regular amounts of money to a charity.
    他定期向一家慈善机构捐一定数额的钱。
25. Vast amounts of money are being invested in the local market.
    大量资金投放在当地市场上。
26. A fair amount of rain has fallen.
    下了一场大雨。
27. All tests contain a fair amount of unreliability.
    所有试验在很大程度上是不可靠的。
28. They didn't deliver the right amount of sand.
    他们送来的沙子的数量不对。
29. This requires an incalculable amount of patience.
    这需要极大的耐心。
30. Laser beams carry surprisingly intense amounts of energy.
    激光带有极强的能量。
31. The new tax caused a huge amount of public anger.
    这种新税引起了公众极大的怨愤。
32. I had a certain amount of difficulty finding the house.
    在找这房子时，我颇遇到一些困难。
33. She has put in a considerable amount of time and effort to ensure the success of the project.
    她投入了大量的时间和精力以保证工程完成。
34. We have common reserve fund to the amount of ￡5000.
    我们有总数达五千英镑的公积金。
35. In the fire,property was destroyed to the amount of $10,000.
    在那场火灾中，总共损失财产一万美元。
36. He supported the tobacco company last year to the amount of ￡40,000.
    他去年资助该烟草公司数额达四万英镑。
37. There is a large amount of work for us to do.
    大量的工作等待我们去做。
38. There were large amounts of tourists on the ferry.
    渡船上有大量的旅游者。
39. There's only a small amount of food.
    食物只剩下一点。
40. There was a small amount of sugar in the bowl.
    碗里有少量的糖。
41. We have already heard about it so your information is of little amount to us.
    我们已经知道了，所以你的消息对我们没有什么价值。

经典引文

• What the real amount of that statement may be.

  出自： J. Lingard

• Which doth amount to three odd ducats more Than I stand debted to this gentleman.

  出自：Comedy of Errors , Shakespeare

常用短语

用作名词 (n.)

any amount of

大量a large quantity of sth

no amount of

即使再多(或再大)(也不) used for saying that sth will have no effect

用作动词 (v.)

amount to (v.+prep.)

等于；相当于；意味着 be equal to or the same as sth; signify
amount to sth
The bill amounts to $500.

这张账单共计500美元。
Our debts amount to over $1000.

我们的负债总共超过了1000美元。
The loss from the flood amounts to ten million dollars.

水灾造成的损失达1000万美元。
The total expenses amount to a thousand yuan .

全部费用合计达1000元。
The four sums together amount to a lot of money.

这四笔金额加在一起就是很多钱。
The number of books published this year amounts to over a million.

今年出版的书籍达100万册以上。
His works published since 1956 amount to nearly four mill on words.

自1956年以来，他发表的作品近400万字。
His earnings are said to amount to ￡300,000 per annum.

据说他每年的酬金高达30万英镑。
I cannot afford the trip to New York,because the travelling expenses would amount to at least $3000 if I went.

到纽约旅行我去不起，因为我如果去的话，这趟旅费至少也得要三千美元。
Their total grain output amounted to 5 million kilograms last year.

去年他们的粮食总产量达500万公斤。
His income for that year amounted to￡15,000.

他那年的收入达15,000英镑。
The annual cost of income support to unmarried mothers amounted to ￡700 million in that year.

该年对未婚母亲收入补助的全年花费总计达7亿英镑。
The oil company's net profits amounted to more than 1000 million dollars.

这家石油公司每年的净利达10亿美元以上。
The output of these small factories amounted to 70 percent of the province's total.

这些小厂的产量占全省总产量的70%。 amount to sth/v-ing
Her reply amounts to a refusal.

她的回答等于拒绝。
Two dates in nine years hardly amounts to an active social life.

九年中有两次约会很难算是社交。
Such aids amount to economic aggression.

这种援助其实是经济侵略。
Their actions amount to a breach of contract.

他们的行为已属违反合同。
What it amounts to is simply that he is not willing to give us his support.

那只是表明他不愿意支持我们。
Whether you go or she goes amounts to the same thing.

不管你去还是她去都一样。
With his intelligence, he should amount to something when he grows up.

凭他的智力，他长大后定成大器。
If he goes on like this,he'll never amount to anything.

如果他一味这样下去，他将一事无成。
His words amounted to a threat.

他的话实际上是威胁。
It amounted to no more than this.

这件事不过如此而已。
The court decided that the company's actions amounted to unfair dismissal.

法庭裁定公司的行为是不合理解雇。
He gave what amounted to an apology on behalf of his company.

他代表公司算是作了一番道歉。
I don't quite make out what it's going to amount to.

我不大明白，这究竟算得了什么呢？
Borrowing money and not returning it amounts to stealing.

借了钱不还就等于偷。
Keeping silent in this case amounts to supporting the speaker.

在这种情况下保持沉默，就等于支持发言者。
Keeping what belongs to another amounts to stealing.

把属于别人的东西据为己有，实际上就是偷窃。
Not punishing these hooligans amounts to condoning their behaviour.

不惩处这些无赖就意味着宽恕他们的行为。
It amounts to saying that they have failed in their experiment.

那等于说他们试验失败了。
To declare her innocent would amount to admitting his own fault.

宣布她无罪等于承认他自己有错。

not amount to much〔a great deal〕

不太重要，没什么了不起not be very impressive, important, etc.

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• approach the amount of 接近…数目
• calculate the amount 计算数量
• credit an amount to sb's account 把一笔款记入某人的账户
• find the total amount 算出总额
• fix the amount 确定数量
• know a fair amount about 对…了解很多
• pay the amount due 付到期的款项
• reach a certain amount 达到一定数量
• subscribe the same amount 认捐同样的数额
• trim the amount 削减金额
• figure out the exact amount 算出确切的数额

形容词+～

• aggregate amount 总额
• ample amount 富足的数量
• annual amounts 年度金额
• any amount 任何数量
• approved amount 核准的数额
• approximate amount 概算额
• average amount 平均数量
• certain amount 一定的数量
• considerable amount 相当数量
• enormous amount 巨大的数量
• exact amount 确切的数量
• fixed amount 固定金额
• full amount 总数，总共的量
• generous amount 大量
• huge amount 巨额
• immense amount 大量
• large amount 大量
• like amount 相同的量
• maximum amount 最大数量，最高额
• minimum amount 最低数量，最低额
• moderate amount 适量
• net amount 净数，净计
• outstanding amount 未付款额
• paltry amount 微不足道的数量
• same amount 同样的数额
• small amount 少量
• sufficient amount 足够的数量
• surprising amount 惊人的数量
• tremendous amount 极大的数量

介词+～

• above a certain amount 超过一定数额
• beyond this amount 超过这个数目
• in amount 总之，总计
• in large amounts 大量的
• more than ￡1000 in amount 总额超过一千英镑
• salary of this amount 这个数目的薪金
• to the amount of 总计达

～+介词

• a considerable amount of memory work 大量的记忆工作
• a great amount of information 大量资料
• a large amount of baggage 一大堆行李
• a large amount of jobs 大量的活儿
• a large amount of work 大量的工作
• a moderate amount of traffic 不算拥挤的交通
• a proper amount of exercise and sleep 适量的运动和睡眠
• a small amount of thinner 少量的稀释剂
• a vast amount of 大量的
• a vast amount of Chinese products 大量的中国产品
• an amount of 相当的，适量的
• an amount of information 一些信息
• an amount of money 一笔钱
• an amount of time 一段时间
• an astronomical amount of money 一笔天文数字的巨款
• an immense amount of scattered data 大量分散的资料
• the amount of debts 负债总额
• the high amount of taxes 高额税收
• the large amount of police cars 大批警车
• amount in figures 小写金额
• amount in words 大写金额

词语用法

1. amount后可接介词to。

   The expenses amount to ￥50.

2. amount后也可接动名词，要注意不要与不定式混淆。

   That amounts to saying that he is a genius.
   saying不可改成say。

3. 做名词时，只能用在不可数名词，如能说a large amount of literature，不能说a large amount of books。

n. (名词)

1. amount 用于表示“量”“额”，如重量、金额等。
2. amount of后一般接不可数名词，有时也可接复数可数名词，此名词被视为某一“总量”或“综述”。
3. 短语 in the amount of (总共为)可以 of 或 for 代之；to the amount (总共达)可以 to 代之。但如接款项数字大的总数，一般用 in〔to〕 the amount of。

v. (动词)

1. amount用作动词的基本意思是“合计,共计”,引申可指“等同,接近”。
2. amount是不及物动词,常与介词to连用。

词义辨析

n. (名词)

amount, aggregate, number, quantity, sum, total, whole

• 这组词的共同意思是“总数、总合”。其区别是：
• aggregate指把数目的各个部分加在一起；amount指累积的结果；number指数字或东西相加所得的总数；sum指最后的总结果，表示截至现在的总数, 还有增加的可能；total和whole都指合计的结果的全体，total常指大的数量，whole也含有各部分总和的意味。quantity主要表示物质的量。
• adj.
• ［' ɡrIɡət］

an amount of, a number of

• 这两个词都表示“数量”。其区别在于:前者表示“数”,与复数名词或代词连用; 而后者表示“量”,与不可数名词连用。例如:
• A small number of people believe in ghosts.只有少数人相信有鬼。
• A large amount of money was spent on books.一大笔钱花在了购买图书上。

v. (动词)

amount to, add up to, come to, count up to, run into

• 这五个短语动词都是“总计”的意思,其差别很细微：
• 1.从构成上说, add up to和count up to是动副介型短语; 而amount to, come to和run into是动介型短语。
• 2.从主语上说, add up to和come to相同,均多为钱、账单、数目等; amount to和run into的主语多为loss, cost, expense, debt, sum等名词; 而count up to的主语则仅限It。例如:
• Our hotel bill added up to〔amounted to,came to〕 300 dollars.我们的旅馆费共计300美元。
• His debts amounted to〔ran into〕 over 3000 dollars.他的债务已高达3000多美元。
• It counts up to 300 dollars.共计300美元。
• 3.从宾语上说, add up to, amount to, come to后一般接数字; 而count up to和run into后除可接数字外,还可接名词。例如:
• It counts up to a considerable sum.合计起来数目相当可观。
• Losses run into six figures.损失高达6位数。
• 4.从使用场合上说, come to最通俗, count up to不常用。

quantity，amount，number，sum

• 这些名词均有“总数、总量”之意。
• quantity书面用词，指事物的总量和总数量，侧重大批计量，含准确测量的意味。
• amount普通用词，与quantity近义，但强调整体，指把所有数量、重量及度量归并在一起得出的总数。
• number普通用词，指人或物的数目，强调数的概念。
• sum普通用词，指简单加算的结果。

词源解说

• ☆ 13世纪中期进入英语，直接源自古法语的amonter，意为往上，向山上去。

近反义词

【近义词】

• extent
• mass
• measure
• quantity
• sum
• total