sum and substance
总数和实质,总数和内容,总量和实质,摘要和内容
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- : main idea, gist, or point: the sum and substance of an argument.
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As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
Scalise spoke briefly, adding little of substance, saying that the people back home know him best.
Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
Later that night, that same black-and-red banner would be seen again—in the column of marchers chanting for dead cops.
It was such a magnificent sum that Sol did not feel like taking the familiarity with it of mentioning it aloud.
In withdrawing aside sorrow remaineth: and the substance of the poor is according to his heart.
She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
Its backbone should be the study of biology and its substance should be the threshing out of the burning questions of our day.
No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.