tantamount

英语

词源

源自盎格鲁-诺曼语 tant amount，源自amunter，源自tant (“如此”) amonter (“总计”)。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/

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• 韵部：-æntəmaʊnt

形容词

tantamount (比较级 more tantamount，最高级 most tantamount)

1. 等同的，基本上是...的

   It's tantamount to fraud.

   这相当于诈骗。

   In this view, disagreement and treason are tantamount.

   这个观点下，不同意就相当于叛变。

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   • 1981, Del Martin, Battered Wives，第 90 页:

     […] expecting the woman to take her attacker into physical custody is tantamount to preventing the arrest. If she could handle him, she probably would not need to call the police in the first place.

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   • 2003年3月3日, Philip Gourevitch, “The Optimist”, 出自 The New Yorker‎^[1]:

     In Bosnia, as in Rwanda, however, passive neutrality was tantamount to complicity with the perpetrators of “ethnic cleansing” and mass murder.

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   • 2022年3月16日, Max Fisher, “As Russia Digs In, What’s the Risk of Nuclear War? ‘It’s Not Zero.’”, 出自 The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Russia has said that it considers the weapons and other increased military aid that Western governments are sending to Ukraine tantamount to war, and has implied that it might strike NATO convoys.

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用法说明

• 基本仅用于短语tantamount to

动词

tantamount (第三人称单数简单现在时 tantamounts，现在分词 tantamounting，一般过去时及过去分词 tantamounted)

1. (弃用) 等于，等同于
   • a. 1657, Jeremy Taylor, “Of the Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy, By Divine Institution, Apostolical Tradition, and Catholick Practice”, 出自 Συμβολον Ἠθικο-Πολεμικον: or a Collection of Polemical and Moral Discourses, R. Royston，第 126 页:

     […] and yet this will not tant’amount to an immediate Divine inſtitution for Deacons, and how can it then for Presbyters ?

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名词

tantamount (复数 tantamounts)

1. (弃用) 价值或数量等同的事物 (定于用法合并进入了形容词内)
   • 1977, Last Essays of Maurice Hewlett，第 42 页:

     For end thereof, not despondency but madness : for when Cossey understood that Hobday had called his wife a tantamount, he waited for him outside, and gave him what he called a pair of clippers over the ear.

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