| 单词 | amount |
| 释义 | amount amount // noun, verb
■ noun [C,U]
FACE AMOUNT
1 a quantity of money: You will receive a bill for the full amount. The insurance company will refund any amount due to you. Small amounts will be paid in cash. You have to pay tax on the full amount.
❖ to pay/receive/refund an amount ◆ to increase/lower/reduce an amount ◆ large/small amounts ◆ the full/right/total amount
2 (used especially with uncountable nouns) a quantity of sth: The amount of time shoppers spend in a store affects how much they will buy. We want to double the amount of business that we do in London. The company has huge amounts of debt.
AMOUNTS DIFFER
■ verb
PHRASAL VERBS
amount to sth to add up to sth; to be equal to or the same as sth: Total payments for the consulting work amounted to $13.3 million. Their actions amount to a breach of contract. We were sure the project would not amount to much (= not be successful). Marketing expenses amounted to 16 per cent of gross revenues. |
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