amounts

n.数量；总额

vi.总计；等于

A petrol gauge shows the amount of petrol left in a car. 汽油表指示出汽车里所剩的汽油数量。

He has a large amount of mail to answer every day. 他每天有大量的信件要回复。

Remember to tell the guest the amount of the bill. 记得告诉客人帐单的总额。

We charge one percent commission on the total amount. 我们收取支票总额的1%25作为手续费。

The number of the injured amounted to over one hundred. 受伤人数总计一百多。

Her answer amounted to a complete refusal. 她的答复等于是完全拒绝。

This amounts to doing the whole thing over again. 这就等于要把整个事情重做一遍。

amount后可接介词to。 The expenses amount to ￥50.

amount后也可接动名词，要注意不要与不定式混淆。 That amounts to saying that he is a genius.saying不可改成say。

做名词时，只能用在不可数名词，如能说a large amount of literature，不能说a large amount of books。

amount 用于表示“量”“额”，如重量、金额等。

amount of后一般接不可数名词，有时也可接复数可数名词，此名词被视为某一“总量”或“综述”。

短语 in the amount of (总共为)可以 of 或 for 代之；to the amount (总共达)可以 to 代之。但如接款项数字大的总数，一般用 in〔to〕 the amount of。

amount用作动词的基本意思是“合计,共计”,引申可指“等同,接近”。

amount是不及物动词,常与介词to连用。