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

• Today, around one third of urban dwellers, amounting to nearly one billion people, live in urban slums, informal settings, or pavement tents.
  今天，约三分之一的城市居民，即近10亿人，生活在城市贫民窟、不正式的居所或路边的帐篷中。
• There are several kinds of gas in the air, with nitrogen amounting to the most part.
  空气中有好几种气体，氮所占的比重最大。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• China ′ s import and export mix was more optimized with the proportion of electromechanical products and hi-tech products in the export total amounting to42.3% and14.8%.
  我国进出口商品结构进一步优化，机电产品和高新技术产品占我国出口总额的比重分别达到42.3%和14.8%。
• The corresponding surge in the proportion of liquid assets following the Lehman bankruptcy was the most rapid in postwar history, amounting to a rise of nearly$ 400bn.
  相应地，雷曼（Lehman）破产事件后流动资产所占比例以战后最快的速度猛增，累计增加了近4000亿美元。
• To date, Roche has fulfilled Government pandemic orders amounting to220 million treatment courses of Tamiflu.
  到目前为止，罗氏已顺利供给了政府所订购的多达2.2亿疗程的达菲。
• But both these inflows of foreign exchange were outdone by a record outflow of other kinds of capital, amounting to a net$ 110 billion.
  但是其他形式的资本大量流出，远超过了这些外汇资本的流入，其净额达到1100亿美元。
• 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。