amount 用法点滴
1. 用作名词,意为“数量”、“金额”等,通常用于 a (great,
large) amount of 这类结构,其后通常接不可数名词; 这类结构用作主语,其谓语的数取决于 amount 的数。如:
在这座桥上花了大量资金。
正: A large amount of money was spent on the bridge.
正: Large amounts of money were spent on the bridge.
比较:在 a great number of 之后通常接可数名词(用复数)。
2. 用作动词,意为“合计”、“等于”、“意味着”,通常是不及物动词,其后常接介词 to。如:
Building cost amounts to six million dollars. 建筑费用达600 万元。
Her reply amounts to a refusal. 她的回答等于拒绝。
This amounts to doing the whole thing over again. 这等于要把整个事重做一遍。
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