0 a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot be counted -- （尤指不可數事物的）數量；數額；量；總數
You wouldn't believe the amount of trouble (= what a lot of trouble) I've had with this car. 你決不會相信這輛汽車給我帶來了多少麻煩。
I had a certain amount of (= some) difficulty finding the house. 我找到這房子費了不少勁。
The new tax caused a huge amount of public anger. 新稅收引起了強烈公憤。
I didn't expect the bill to come to this amount (= of money). 我沒有料到帳單上的金額會這麼大。
He paid regular amounts of money to a charity. 他定期向一家慈善機構捐錢。
Small amounts of land were used for keeping animals. 少量的土地用於飼養動物。
The books are selected on an international level, the foreign proportion amounting to approximately 70 per cent.
The larvae were provided with weighed amounts of tomato leaf every two days.
There was no toxicity demonstrated to canola seed meal in amounts up to 2000 mg in the 100 ml flask.
Towering above everything, however, is the colonial expropriation of vast amounts of the country's best land for white settlers.
The above remarks, amounting to no more than a sketch, do scant justice to the many works that have suggested new fields of contemporary historywriting.
Summer-cut silages also contained relatively high amounts of propionic acid.
Moreover, under the experimental conditions of our assay, production of eggs, pupae and adults did not correlate with low amounts of acyl sugars.
However significant amounts of in situ carcinoma, which may not be detected prior to ablation, represent a relative contraindication to cryoablation [14].
