amount to
amount to — 片語動詞
- amount tobase form
- amounts to3rd person singular
- amounting to-ing form
- amounted topast simple
1. to reach a certain figure once all the separate parts are added together.
總計；合計
各部分加起來達到某數目
to reach a certain figure once all the separate parts are added together.
Élise added up every receipt, and the trip costs amounted to nearly $3,000.
Élise 把每張收據都加了起來，這趟旅程的花費總計將近 3,000 美元。
amount to + money sum
The unpaid fines amounted to more than the price of a new car.
那些未繳的罰款合計起來比一輛新車還貴。
subject is a plural noun naming the parts
Together the two farms amount to about forty hectares of green land.
兩座農場加起來總共約有四十公頃的綠地。
By Friday, Putri's overtime hours amounted to a full extra week of work.
到了星期五，Putri 的加班時數已經累計達整整一週的工作量。
The bakery's weekly sales amounted to twelve thousand loaves last summer.
去年夏天這家麵包店每週的銷量總計達一萬兩千條麵包。
文法句型
amount to + figure/sum
用法筆記
Subject is usually the set of parts being counted (bills, hours, sales), and the object is a number, sum, or quantity. Not used in continuous tenses.
常見錯誤
2. to have the same meaning or effect as something else, even if it is not stated i
等同於；形同
在意義或效果上等於某事
to have the same meaning or effect as something else, even if it is not stated in those exact words.
Rania's silence at the meeting amounted to a clear refusal to help.
Rania 在會議上的沉默，形同明白地拒絕幫忙。
amount to + noun naming the real effect
Skipping every training session amounts to telling the coach you have quit.
每次訓練都缺席，等於是在告訴教練你已經退出了。
amount to + gerund clause
After ten years of hard study, Adisa's research amounted to a major breakthrough.
經過十年的苦讀，Adisa 的研究成果稱得上是一項重大突破。
All those grand promises amounted to nothing once the election was over.
選舉一結束，那些冠冕堂皇的承諾全都化為烏有。
Beatriz felt her years of unpaid work amounted to very little in the end.
Beatriz 覺得自己多年的無償付出，到頭來幾乎沒有什麼價值。
- be equivalent to
more formal; states the equality plainly
- be tantamount to
formal and often disapproving, used of serious actions
- come down to
stresses that something reduces to one essential point
文法句型
amount to + noun
not amount to much
用法筆記
Often used to judge the real significance of an action, especially in the negative ('amount to nothing', 'not amount to much') to say something is worthless. Distinguish from sense 1, which counts a literal total rather than weighing an effect.