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词汇 sum
释义 sum
noun
uk /sʌm/ us /sʌm/

sumnoun (AMOUNT OF MONEY)


B1[ C ]
an amount of money: 金额
sum ofHuge sums of money are spent on national defence.巨额的钱财都投入到了国防上。
tidy sumHe sold the house for a tidy (= large) sum.他把房子卖了一大笔钱。
princely sumhumorousI worked for three whole weeks for which I received the princely (= very low) sum of $100.我整整工作了3周,却只得到了可怜巴巴的100美元。
We were awarded a derisory sum.我们得到的奖金少得可怜。
Having sold the house she had a large sum of money at her disposal .
She left a large sum of money in her will to found a wildlife sanctuary.她在遗嘱里留下了一大笔钱用来创建野生动物保护区。
Her divorce settlement included a lump sum of $2 million.她的离婚协议包括一次性补偿200万美元。
She was paid the mind-boggling sum of ten million pounds for that film.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Amounts of money
appropriation
balance
bank
bounty
buck
capital
circumstance
coin
fisc
float
holdback
living wage
money supply
nut
payout
pool
sub
trough
wherewithal
your daily breadidiom

sumnoun (TOTAL)


[ S ]
the whole number or amount when two or more numbers or amounts have been added together: 总数,总和
The sum of 13 and 8 is 21.13加8等于21。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to add up numbers
addAdd 24, 63, and 55.
add upMy job was to add up the scores at the end.
totalTotal the daily payments for a month and you arrive at your monthly expenditure.
find the sumFind the sum of the following numbers.
find the totalFind the total of £26.33, £55.09, and £109.65.
add up toThe figures add up to a huge amount.
 in sumformal
considered as a whole: 总的来说,总而言之,总之
The meeting was, in sum, a disaster.总的来说,这次会议糟糕透了。
 the sum of something
all of something, especially when this is not very much: 全部…,所有…
And that's the sum of my knowledge on the subject!恐怕我对这个学科的了解总共就那么一点点!
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Calculations & calculating
algebraic
algebraically
algo
algorithmic
amount
calculate
integration
interpolation
inverse function
linear equation
mathematical
matrix
miscalculate
miscount
operator
sum total
tolerance
tot something up
triangulate
work something out

sumnoun (CALCULATION)


[ C ]
a calculation, especially a simple one, using such processes as adding, taking away, multiplying, or dividing: (尤指运用加减乘除的简单)计算,算术
do a sumI remember how much I hated doing sums when I was at school.我记得我上学的时候非常讨厌算术。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Calculations & calculating
algebraic
algebraically
algo
algorithmic
amount
calculate
integration
interpolation
inverse function
linear equation
mathematical
matrix
miscalculate
miscount
operator
sum total
tolerance
tot something up
triangulate
work something out

Idioms


get/have your sums right/wrong
more/greater/bigger etc. than the sum of its parts

sum | American Dictionary


sum
noun
us/sʌm/

sumnoun (AMOUNT OF MONEY)


[ C ]
a particular amount of money:
The sum involved in the sale was not reported.

sumnoun (TOTAL)


[ U ] mathematics
a total found by the addition of two or more numbers:
The sum of seven and twelve is nineteen.
 in sum
In sum is said before giving a final, brief statement describing something:
In sum, the American public did not perceive global warming as urgent.

sum | Business English


sum
noun
uk /sʌm/us
[ C ] MONEY, FINANCE
an amount of money:
Share price slid by 1p to 142p fuelled by concerns that the company might offer too generous a sum for the proposed venture in India.
The sale of Germany's biggest commercial TV operator for an undisclosed sum follows a bidding contest.
Banks may not be prepared to open an account if the sum involved is too small.
large/huge/enormous sumsRestrictions have been imposed by the government on the movement of large sums of money out of the country.
a small/modest/substantial sumA substantial sum has been set aside for litigation relating to the construction project.
an additional/cash/final sumThe final sum an investor receives from a pension is dependent on the rate of investment growth.
vast/huge/considerable sums
a sum of $8/£2,000/€1.2m, etc.Legislation approved yesterday will raise a much-needed sum of £300,000 for use on the roads.
pay (out)/spend/invest a sumDeposits are non-recoverable cash sums paid just to reserve a property, with a further sum payable when contracts are exchanged.
earn/receive/owe a sumVictims of an explosion at a chemical works are set to receive large sums in compensation.
borrow/lend a sumFirst-time buyers are having to borrow huge sums to buy a home.
[ S ](alsosum total)
the number or amount that is the result of adding together two or more numbers or amounts:
sum of sthIn 2006, the sum of all income for residents of Colorado rose by 6.5%.
[ C ]UK
a calculation that involves adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing numbers:
You need to do your sums before deciding whether you would benefit more from a fixed-rate or a tracker mortgage.
Amid the pressure to get their sums right, many funds have closed to new business.
[ S ](alsosum total)
the whole of something after all the different features or parts of it are considered:
the sum of sthWe believe that the sum of our business principles maximizes our chances of success.
 more/greater than the sum of its parts
more powerful, effective, etc. as a whole than you would think if you considered the different features or parts that it consists of:
The claimed logic of this latest merger is that the whole will be more than the sum of the parts.
 in sum
used at the end of a report or discussion before giving a short description of the main ideas or facts:
We're looking, in sum, for a major player who believes in newspapers as a serious business.
 a princely/tidy sum
a large amount of money:
She sold her story to the tabloids for a princely sum.
We have made a tidy sum on our investments.
 the princely sum of sth
used in a humorous way to refer to an unexpectedly small amount of money:
The book was first published in the UK in 1972 for the princely sum of 40p.

See also


capital sum
lump sum

Examples of sum


sum
To sum up, we have thus far established a sufficient condition for eradication to be optimal, and we have characterized the other possible qualitative solutions.
We obtain at the 2000 epoch, a sum squared error equals to 0.001, which represents a good result.
The "second-stage filter" has a larger receptive field than the "first-stage filters," and sums the nonlinearly transformed outputs of the first-stage filters.
An additive effect is when predation by two predators is equal to the sum of prey removed by each individual predator alone.
From the fitted model, scale scores were estimated by summing the number of symptoms reported by each participant.
Thus, the wage sum, that is the contribution base, is constantly 96.
The performance was a great success and the showman collected a tidy sum of money.
For the other sum in the variance the more precise asymptotic estimates (5.1) and (5.2) are required.
The six to eight different maps in the interest-map sum were each salient features in themselves, such as skin-colour, motion, edges or colour saturation.
This is summed across all crops, land types, and time.
First,'possibilities': it is not difficult to sum up numerous possibilities with regard to the ritual.
By the end of the 1980s, the total sum of subsidies for music had reached a new high.
As with the religious context measure, procedures of summing within households, subtracting the respondents' values, and recoding were utilized to create the measure.
In sum, most of the non-facility respondents were busy and engaged in the institutional routine.
A more challenging situation is when the sum of dimensions emerging from both structural and spectral constraints does not add up to the transversal property.
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Collocations withsum


sum

These are words often used in combination with sum.

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astronomical sum
The ultimate result will be the expenditure of the astronomical sum of £2,000 million, and nobody will quite know what it is all about.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
colossal sum
Anyone who thinks that we can nationalise the land without spending a colossal sum of public money is really living in a fool's paradise.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
considerable sum
These concessions were then rented or transferred to third parties for a considerablesum of money.
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