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

• In recent years, American, British and other European politicians have transferred the cost of poor financial decisions, amounting to trillions of dollars, from the influential people who made those mistakes to taxpayers who did not.
  近年，美国、英国及其它欧洲国家的政客将糟糕金融决策的代价（总计有数万亿美元），从犯下这些错误的有影响力的人群，转移到了无辜的纳税人身上。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Today, around one third of urban dwellers, amounting to nearly one billion people, live in urban slums, informal settings, or pavement tents.
  今天，约三分之一的城市居民，即近10亿人，生活在城市贫民窟、不正式的居所或路边的帐篷中。
• Several times we have sold goods amounting to eight million dollars, but have never experienced a delay in payment.
  我们有几次卖给该公司高达八百万美元的货物，但它从未施欠过货款。
• There are several kinds of gas in the air, with nitrogen amounting to the most part.
  空气中有好几种气体，氮所占的比重最大。
• 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 threshold after a company's reducing registered capital shall not be less than the minimum amounting for registered capital stipulated in the preceding paragraph.
  公司减少注册资本后的最低限额，不得低于前款规定的最低注册资本额。
• 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。