amounting

英 [əˈmaʊntɪŋ]

美 [əˈmaʊntɪŋ]

v.  合计，共计; 等同，接近
amount的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 总数；总额
  Theamount ofsomething is how much there is, or how much you have, need, or get.
  1. He needs that amount of money to survive...
     他需要那样一笔钱以生存下去。
  2. I still do a certain amount of work for them...
     我仍然为他们做一些工作。
  3. Postal money orders are available in amounts up to $700.
     邮政汇票的金额最高可达700美元。
• VERB 合计；共计
  If somethingamounts toa particular total, all the parts of it add up to that total.
  1. Consumer spending on sports-related items amounted to £9.75 billion.
     消费者在体育相关产品上的花费共计97.5亿英镑。
• PHRASE 大量
  If you say that there isany amount ofsomething, there is a lot of it. If you say that there areany amount ofpeople or things, there are many people or things.
  1. I'm able to lay my hands on any amount of cash at a minute's notice...
     多少钱我都可以马上弄到。
  2. There are any amount of clubs you could join.
     有无数个俱乐部你可以加入。

You should avoid using a plural noun afteramount of; instead you should usenumber ofwith a plural noun....the number of people out of work.
amount of后不用复数名词，而number of后要用复数名词：the number of people out of work（失业人数）。

双语例句

• To date, Roche has fulfilled Government pandemic orders amounting to220 million treatment courses of Tamiflu.
  到目前为止，罗氏已顺利供给了政府所订购的多达2.2亿疗程的达菲。
• His debts are to be paid, amounting, I believe, to considerably more than a thousand pounds, another thousand in addition to her own settled upon her, and his commission purchased.
  我相信他替他偿还的债务一定远在一千镑以上，而且除了她自己名下的钱以外，另外又给她一千镑，还给他买了个官职。
• Party B delays in paying rental and other charges amounting to over rental of one month.
  拖欠租金或其他费用达壹个月租金数额以上。
• As a consequence, welfare spending has been inadequate, amounting to around half the level ( as a share of GDP) of comparable countries.
  其结果就是，福利支出不足，它在gdp中所占比例约为同级别国家的一半。
• Office printing is a huge market, amounting to$ 81 billion last year, according to IDC.
  据IDC的报道，办公市场商机巨大，去年这个市场的总销量达到了810亿美元。
• Our operational target for the year of2011 is to generate transportation revenue and profit respectively amounting to1 billion RMB and100 million RMB.
  2011年租入船工作目标为实现运输收入10亿元人民币、创效1亿元人民币。
• With your experience not amounting to anything, you could be a wonderful example.
  凭借你的经验，你会是一个很好的例子。注：反面教材？
• Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the ratification of an unauthorized signature not amounting to a forgery.
  但本条对追认未经授权但不属伪冒之签名，并无影响。
• The corresponding surge in the proportion of liquid assets following the Lehman bankruptcy was the most rapid in postwar history, amounting to a rise of nearly$ 400bn.
  相应地，雷曼（Lehman）破产事件后流动资产所占比例以战后最快的速度猛增，累计增加了近4000亿美元。
• But both these inflows of foreign exchange were outdone by a record outflow of other kinds of capital, amounting to a net$ 110 billion.
  但是其他形式的资本大量流出，远超过了这些外汇资本的流入，其净额达到1100亿美元。