sum
noun OPAL WOPAL S
/sʌm/
/sʌm/
Idioms - [countable] sum (of something) an amount of money
金额；款项 - You will be fined the sum of £200.
你将被罚款 200 英镑。 - a large sum of money
一大笔钱 - The judge awarded them an undisclosed six-figure sum in damages.
法官判给他们一笔 6 位数的赔偿金，具体数目未透露。 - Huge sums have been invested in this project.
在这个项目上已投入了巨额资金。 - The team has raised substantial sums for local charities.
这个团队已为当地慈善事业筹到了可观的钱款。
Topics Moneyb2- £200 was an astronomical sum of money in 1547.
在 1547 年，200 英镑可是一个天文数字。 - For his first book he received the princely sum of $400.
他写第一本书得到了 400 美元的“巨款”。 - He joined the club two years ago for a record sum.
两年前他以创纪录的天价加盟该俱乐部。 - It seemed an absurdly high sum to pay for a coat.
买件外套这个价钱好像高得离谱了。 - Some of the paintings should fetch a tidy sum at today's auction.
今天的拍卖会上，有些画应该可以卖一大笔钱。 - The charity pays a nominal sum to lease the premises.
该慈善机构象征性地支付了一点儿钱，租用了这片地产。 - The gangsters offered him a sum equivalent to a whole year's earnings.
歹徒提出要给他一笔相当于他一年收入的钱。 - The landlord has the right to recover any sums payable under this lease.
房东有权收取本租约下所有的应付款项。 - We eventually agreed a sum and I gave him a cheque.
我们最终就款额达成一致，我给了他一张支票。 - You will have to go to court to recover these sums.
想要追回这笔钱，你得打官司。 - a project that cost vast sums of public money
耗费巨额公款的项目
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- considerable
- generous
- good
- …
- borrow
- earn
- fetch
- …
- be due
- be payable
- be equal to something
- …
- a sum of money
- You will be fined the sum of £200.
- [countable, usually singular] sum (of something) the number you get when you add two or more numbers together
和；总和；总数 - The sum of 7 and 12 is 19.
7 加 12 的和是 19。 - Calculate the sum of the following figures.
计算下列数字的总和。
Collocations Dictionaryverb + sum- calculate
- find
- work out
- …
- sum of
- greater, less, more, etc. than the sum of its/the parts
- The sum of 7 and 12 is 19.
- (also sum total)[singular] the sum of something all of something, especially when you think that it is not very much
全部，一切（尤指数量不大） - This is the sum of my achievements so far.
这就是我目前的全部成就。
- This is the sum of my achievements so far.
- [countable] a simple problem that involves calculating numbers
算术；（数字的）简单计算 - to do a sum in your head
做心算 - I was good at sums at school.
我上学时擅长算术。 - If I've got my sums right, I should be able to afford the rent.
要是我算对了的话，我应该负担得起这笔租金。
- I did a quick sum to work out how much it would cost.
我很快地算出了需要花费的钱数。 - The company got its sums wrong when estimating how many customers it would attract.
这家公司把他们能够吸引的顾客人数估算错了。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- difficult
- easy
- do
- get your sums right/wrong
see also dim sum - to do a sum in your head
词源Middle English: via Old French from Latin summa ‘main part, sum total’, feminine of summus ‘highest’.
Idioms
be greater/more than the sum of its parts
- to be better or more effective as a group than you would think just by looking at the individual members of the group
个体相加不如集体的力量大 - The team is greater than the sum of its parts.
这个团队具有强大的整体力量。
- The team is greater than the sum of its parts.
in sum
- (formal) used to introduce a short statement of the main points of a discussion, speech, etc.
总之；总而言之 - In sum, we have no chance of winning the case.
总之，我们没有机会打赢这场官司。
- In sum, we have no chance of winning the case.