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amount

/uh-mount/US // əˈmaʊnt //UK // (əˈmaʊnt) //

数量,数额,金额,量

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
    • : the sum of the principal and interest of a loan.
    • : quantity; measure: a great amount of resistance.
    • : the full effect, value, or significance.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to total; add: The repair bill amounts to $300.
    • : to reach, extend, or be equal in number, quantity, effect, etc.; be equivalent: It is stated differently but amounts to the same thing.
    • : to develop into; become: With his intelligence, he should amount to something when he grows up.

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Examples

  • So I started to think about anything in my life that would be worth people giving it any amount of time.

  • The number of diplomats was pitiful (45 appointees in 1860), as was the amount of money allocated to them.

  • The amount of vanished bitcoins was 650,000 BTC (or 24.7 billion yen).

  • They are afflicted with “progressive spiritual emptiness,” he said, which no amount of academic honors and degrees can fill.

  • We may never know the full amount that the Kochs or other outside spenders donate to advance anti-union legislation.

  • Other factors being equal, the amount of urea indicates the activity of metabolism.

  • After about the forty-fifth year it becomes gradually less; after seventy-five years it is about one-half the amount given.

  • In disease, the amount of solids depends mainly upon the activity of metabolism and the ability of the kidneys to excrete.

  • The amount of the other purin bodies together is about one-tenth that of uric acid.

  • For instance, the Limestone Polypody is not happy unless there is a certain amount of lime present in the soil.