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单词 amount to
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amount to

phrasal verb
If you say that one thing amounts to something else, you consider the first thing to be the same as the second thing.
The confessions were obtained by what amounts to torture. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
...a schoolboy comedy, which amounted to little more than slapstick. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
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Examples of 'amount to' in a sentence
amount to

Which can amount to the same thing.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He now admits that this amounts to the same thing.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Both methods amount to the same thing.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Those small things can amount to big things in terms of staying in the competition or going out.
The Sun (2016)
Which amounts to the same thing, really.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
So why not allow crooked feeds at the lineout, as it amounts to the same thing?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Both are fashionable diets, and both amount to the same thing.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It appears though that they told the company they could not assure safety if drilling continued, which may amount to the same thing.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It's small margins but those small things can amount to a big thing in terms of staying in the competitionor going out.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Or, he is really magic, which pretty much amounts to the same thing.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In his eyes, as with most politicians of course, that amounts to the same thing.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Asked whether his wish to overthrow capitalism extended to the Government, he said that they amounted to the same thing.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Still, one might wonder whether that does not really amount to the same thing - or is it to the other.
Wood, David Philosophy at the Limit (1990)
Or perhaps I just happen to agree with all of them, which naturally amounts to the same thing.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
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