2019-08-13 amount to

英英释义：be regarded or classified as; be the equivalent of 

“amount to”一般的用法是：A amounts to B，即“A 就相当于 B”。 

当我们描述陌生现象、抽象概念时，经常会用大家熟悉的现象做类比或者举例子，这时候就可以用到 amount to。在描述一些听起来比较枯燥的话题时，也可以使用 amount to 作类比让它变得生动有趣。

sentence

1. His “let's have dinner some other time” amounts to polite refusal.

2. Wasting others’ time amounts to homicide; wasting your own time amounts to suicide. 

3. 我们还常说“解释就是掩饰”。这里的“是”更准确的意思是“相当于”，因此我们可以说： Explanation always amounts to hiding the truth. 

4. Annual net migration amounts to about three times the attendance at a Manchester United football match.

5. More significant was the announcement by the Commerce Department, on the same day, that it was adding Huawei to a list of firms with which American companies cannot do business without official permission. That amounts to a prohibition on exports of American technology to Huawei.（这里的 amount to 写出了作者对美国商务部做法的解读） 

6. Arguably, it already amounts to an undeclared cyber-war.（虽然并没有宣战，但从双方的种种迹象来看，已经相当于是不宣而战了）

practice

学而不思就相当于没有学习

Learning without thinking amounts to no learning.

参考翻译：Learning without thinking amounts to not learning at all.