amounts

英 [əˈmaʊnts]

美 [əˈmaʊnts]

n.  金额; 数量; 数额
v.  合计，共计; 等同，接近
amount的第三人称单数和复数

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

• Businessmen spend enormous amounts advertising their products
  商人们花费巨额资金为自己的商品做广告。
• The protection that farmers have enjoyed amounts to a bias in favour of the countryside
  农民所受的保护几乎变成了对乡村的偏袒。
• Nuclear fission releases tremendous amounts of energy.
  核裂变释放出巨大的能量。
• The club says it will make increasing amounts from merchandising.
  俱乐部称会从衍生商品中获得越来越多的利润。
• To give money to beggars sometimes amounts to encouraging begging.
  给乞丐钱，有时就等于鼓励行乞。
• The atomic reactor generates enormous amounts of thermal energy.
  原子反应堆发出大量的热能。
• It was profitable for them to produce large amounts of food.
  生产大量的食物能让他们获利。
• You can compress huge amounts of data on to a CD-ROM.
  可以把大量的数据压缩到一张CD-ROM上。
• Coils buried in tunnels below the ground might soon be used to store large amounts of electricity.
  埋在地下隧道里的线圈可能很快就会被用来储存大量的电。
• Earthworms consume large amounts of soil, and produce a rich humus, perfect in texture.
  蚯蚓吃下大量土壤，排出肥力丰富、物理结构理想的腐殖质。