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

• As stated therein, you are requested to issue a General Average Guarantee on our behalf in order that we, as consignee, need not pay the deposit amounting to13% of the CIF value of the cargo.
  正如本函中所述，请代我公司签发一份共同海损证书，以使我方不必支付该批货物CIF价值13%的押金。
• We've drawn on you for payment of the invoice amounting to$ 20,000.
  我们已经根据发票金额20000美圆向你方开出了汇票。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。