sum是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 an amount of money -- 金額

  • Huge sums of money are spent on national defence. 巨額的錢財都投入到國防上。

  • He sold the house for a tidy (= large) sum. 他把房子賣了一大筆錢。

  • humorous I worked for three whole weeks for which I received the princely (= very low) sum of $100. 我整整工作了三週，卻只得到可憐兮兮的100美元。

• 1 the whole number or amount when two or more numbers or amounts have been added together -- 總數，總和

  • The sum of 13 and 8 is 21. 13加8等於21。

  • The meeting was, in sum, a disaster. 總而言之，這次會議糟糕透了。

  • And that's the sum of my knowledge on the subject! 恐怕我對這個學科的了解總共就那麼一點點！

• 2 a calculation, especially a simple one, using such processes as adding, taking away, multiplying, or dividing -- （尤指運用加減乘除的簡單）計算，算術

  • I remember how much I hated doing sums when I was at school. 我記得我上學的時候非常討厭算術。