| 单词 | tantamount |
| 释义 | tantamount adjective formaluk/ˈtæn.tə.maʊnt/us/ˈtæn.t̬ə.maʊnt/tantamount tosomething beingalmostthe same or having the sameeffectas something, usually somethingbad: 几近于；等于，相当于Herrefusaltoanswerwas tantamount to anadmissionofguilt.她拒绝回答等于是认罪。 Synonym equivalent Typifying, illustrating and exemplifying
tantamount| American Dictionarytantamount adjective us/ˈtænt·əˌmɑʊnt/equal: Hersilencewastantamount toanadmissionofguilt. Examplesoftantamounttantamount The system's popularity among voters is so great, that many perceive program reform astantamountto touching the ' ' third rail ' ' of politics. From theCambridge English Corpus They decry deconstruction astantamountto demolition, turning moral philosophy into mere cultural studies. From theCambridge English Corpus Saying that only those who secure desirable goods from their associates have social capital istantamountto saying that only the successful succeed. From theCambridge English Corpus It would seem misleading to interpret the emphasis on marketing (narrow) specific product characteristics astantamountto conveying substantive product information. From theCambridge English Corpus This istantamountto asking ever y witness simply to testify about what he (reasonably) thinks the ultimate outcome of the trial should be. From theCambridge English Corpus A further example of so-called 'colonial lag' istantamount. From theCambridge English Corpus Omitting biology from the resilience equation istantamountto omitting psychology. From theCambridge English Corpus This istantamountto the network design of trade policy. From theCambridge English Corpus These constraints make directly conflicting requirements, but still the domination of one by the other is nottantamountto the inactivity of the dominated constraint. From theCambridge English Corpus This istantamountto explicitly committing liberalism to the freedom of illocutionar y acts and implicitly praising them for this commitment. From theCambridge English Corpus One suggests that the act of writing the music down, of copying it, may have beentantamountto the act of composition itself. From theCambridge English Corpus Relinquishing variation to natural forces was for themtantamountto claiming that variation was arbitrary, with no ordained cause or foreseeable end. From theCambridge English Corpus It infers, or assumes, that the actual process of having a social relationship istantamountto receiving support. From theCambridge English Corpus This, of course, wastantamountto embezzling municipal funds. From theCambridge English Corpus This formalization istantamountto treating transition probability as an additional source of information. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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