amount

Nghĩa

Noun

1. The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
2. A quantity or volume.
3. The number (the sum) of elements in a set.

Verb

1. To total or evaluate.
2. To be the tantamount to; to reach up to the level of.
3. (obsolete) To go up; to ascend.

Phát âm là (IPA)

/əˈmaʊnt/

Từ nguyên

From Middle English amounten (“to mount up to, come up to, signify”), from Old French amonter (“to amount to”), from amont, amunt (“uphill, upward”), from the prepositional phrase a mont (“toward or to a mountain or heap”), from Latin ad montem, from ad (“to”) + montem, accusative of mons (“mountain”).

Câu

The film contains a judicious amount of kicking and slapping .

Bộ phim chứa một số lượng hợp lý của đá và tát.