tantamount

英語

詞源

源自盎格魯-諾曼語 tant amount，源自amunter，源自tant (「如此」) amonter (「總計」)。

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/

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• 韻部：-æntəmaʊnt

形容詞

tantamount (比較級 more tantamount, 最高級 most tantamount)

1. 等同的，基本上是...的

   It's tantamount to fraud.

   這相當於詐騙。

   In this view, disagreement and treason are tantamount.

   這個觀點下，不同意就相當於叛變。

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   • 1981, Del Martin, Battered Wives，頁號 90:

     […] expecting the woman to take her attacker into physical custody is tantamount to preventing the arrest. If she could handle him, she probably would not need to call the police in the first place.

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   • 2003 3月 3, Philip Gourevitch, 「The Optimist」, 出自 The New Yorker‎^[1]:

     In Bosnia, as in Rwanda, however, passive neutrality was tantamount to complicity with the perpetrators of 「ethnic cleansing」 and mass murder.

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   • 2022 3月 16, Max Fisher, 「As Russia Digs In, What’s the Risk of Nuclear War? 『It’s Not Zero.』」, 出自 The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Russia has said that it considers the weapons and other increased military aid that Western governments are sending to Ukraine tantamount to war, and has implied that it might strike NATO convoys.

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用法說明

• 基本僅用於短語tantamount to

動詞

tantamount (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 tantamounts, 現在分詞 tantamounting, 一般過去時及過去分詞 tantamounted)

1. (棄用) 等於，等同於
   • a. 1657, Jeremy Taylor, 「Of the Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy, By Divine Institution, Apostolical Tradition, and Catholick Practice」, 出自 Συμβολον Ἠθικο-Πολεμικον: or a Collection of Polemical and Moral Discourses, R. Royston，頁號 126:

     […] and yet this will not tant』amount to an immediate Divine inſtitution for Deacons, and how can it then for Presbyters ?

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名詞

tantamount (複數 tantamounts)

1. (棄用) 價值或數量等同的事物 (定於用法合併進入了形容詞內)
   • 1977, Last Essays of Maurice Hewlett，頁號 42:

     For end thereof, not despondency but madness : for when Cossey understood that Hobday had called his wife a tantamount, he waited for him outside, and gave him what he called a pair of clippers over the ear.

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