| 词汇 | sum |
| 释义 | sum noun uk/sʌm/ us/sʌm/ (AMOUNT OF MONEY) B1 [ C ]金额 an amount of money Huge sums of money are spent on national defence. 巨额的钱财都投入到了国防上。 He sold the house for a tidy (= large) sum. 他把房子卖了一大笔钱。 humorous I worked for three whole weeks for which I received the princely (= very low) sum of $100. 我整整工作了3周，却只得到了可怜巴巴的100美元。
(TOTAL) [ S ]总数，总和 the whole number or amount when two or more numbers or amounts have been added together The sum of 13 and 8 is 21. 13加8等于21。 in sumformal 总的来说，总而言之，总之 considered as a whole The meeting was, in sum, a disaster. 总的来说，这次会议糟糕透了。 the sum of something 全部…，所有… all of something, especially when this is not very much And that's the sum of my knowledge on the subject! 恐怕我对这个学科的了解总共就那么一点点！ (CALCULATION) [ C ]（尤指运用加减乘除的简单）计算，算术 a calculation, especially a simple one, using such processes as adding, taking away, multiplying, or dividing I remember how much I hated doing sums when I was at school. 我记得我上学的时候非常讨厌算术。 Idioms get/have your sums right/wrongidiom mainly UK 正确／错误地计算费用 to calculate the cost of something correctly/wrongly I must confess that I got my sums wrong - the house extension is costing a lot more than I expected. 我必须承认我算错了账——房子的扩建费用大大超出了我的预期。 more/greater/bigger etc. than the sum of its partsidiom 整体比局部的总和更大（或更重要） used to say that a particular thing, when considered as a whole, is more important, better, etc. than you would expect from looking at the individual parts that make it up He has built a global operation that is clearly bigger than the sum of its parts. 他建立了一套全球运作体系，并不是把各地区的活动相加起来那么简单。 She believes that the Catholic faith is more than the sum of its dogmas. 她相信天主教信仰并非几条信条那么简单。 |
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