| 单词 | sum |
| 释义 | sum I. 1. a. < received occasional sums of money > < a sum of fifty dollars > < are paid only a nominal sum for their services — F.A.Ogg & P.O.Ray > < if all sums for armaments were used to build libraries — Alfred Stefferud > b. archaic < taxes assessed in sums of tobacco > 2. a. < duty to maintain and preserve the sum of human knowledge — H.J.J.Winter > b. < history is not merely a sum of events > < possessed of such various talents in the arts … as in their sum to approach genius — Osbert Sitwell > 3. < reached the sum of human bliss > < saw the war … as the very crown and sum of human folly — Rose Macaulay > 4. a. < the sum of this criticism follows — C.W.Hendel > b. < the sum of the evidence > < attempting to convey the sum of the book in a short phrase or sentence — J.E.Miller > 5. obsolete 6. a. (1) < the sum of 5 and 7 is 12 > (2) b. < a child trying to do a difficult sum in mental arithmetic — C.D.Lewis > c. sums plural < singing is quite as important in education as sums, spelling, or writing — George Sampson > d. Synonyms: < the sum of two and three > and usually applies to simple obvious putting together of things < a personality is never a mere sum of traits and cannot be explained by the most complete inventory — H.J.Muller > amount may be used of more accumulative or combinative processes < the amount of snow that we usually have in the northern United States — Richard Joseph > < a considerable amount of business experience — C.W.Mitman > < a considerable amount of unhappiness and poverty in his early youth — A.E.Wier > aggregate may stress the notion of separate distinct individuals or discrete particulars grouped together < these larger aggregates, the enlarged family, ingroup, the tribe, the clan — Abram Kardiner > < not a logical unity, but an aggregate of notions of various origins — J.O.Evjen > total suggests completeness comprehending inclusiveness and perhaps magnitude of result < a large gold total, mostly through small, individual operations — American Guide Series: Washington > < a total of one million casualties > whole may refer to a unified or integrated totality < society as a whole, acting through its laws, its schools, its publications — R.M.Weaver > < the history as a whole is deficient on the economic side — Allen Johnson > number may suggest an aggregate of countable units, in contrast to amount, which is usually used with uncountables < the number of corpuscles in this amount of blood > < the number of accounts involved in this amount of trade > quantity is broadly used in reference to anything, measurable but usually applies to what is measured in bulk < if pleasure be the sole good, the only possible criterion of pleasures is quantity of pleasure — Clive Bell > < farm country that produces wheat, corn, vegetables and fruit as well as quantities of poultry and milk — American Guide Series: Maryland > < a quantity of silvery-yellow hair — Elinor Wylie > < large quantities of silt — W.H.Dowdeswell > • - in sum II. transitive verb 1. < sum a column of figures > < the costs … can rarely be set down in a neat row and summed — Harold Koontz & Cyril O'Donnell > < this term is obtained by summing the numbers in the bottom left-hand corners of the boxes — Lester Guest > < sum the cards on the tabulator — F.J.Gruenberger > 2. < the body of thought brought to America by the immigrant Puritans … may be summed in a phrase as Carolinian liberalism — V.L.Parrington > 3. obsolete < there was the venture summed and satisfied — Christopher Marlowe > intransitive verb 1. < benefactions that sum into the thousands > 2. III. 1. 2. 3. IV. |
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