| 词汇 | tantamount |
| 释义 | tantamount adjective formaluk /ˈtæn.tə.maʊnt/ us /ˈtæn.t̬ə.maʊnt/ tantamount to something being almost the same or having the same effect as something, usually something bad: 几近于；等于，相当于 Her refusal to answer was tantamount to an admission of guilt.她拒绝回答等于是认罪。 Synonym equivalent Typifying, illustrating and exemplifying analogy archetypal archetypically be someone all overidiom betoken instance instantiate mirror Mr Mrs stereotype sum sum (something/someone) up summation symbolic symbolization symptom territory token translate tantamount | American Dictionarytantamount adjective us/ˈtænt·əˌmɑʊnt/ equal: Her silence was tantamount to an admission of guilt. Examples of tantamounttantamount The system's popularity among voters is so great, that many perceive program reform as tantamount to touching the ' ' third rail ' ' of politics. They decry deconstruction as tantamount to demolition, turning moral philosophy into mere cultural studies. Saying that only those who secure desirable goods from their associates have social capital is tantamount to saying that only the successful succeed. It would seem misleading to interpret the emphasis on marketing (narrow) specific product characteristics as tantamount to conveying substantive product information. This is tantamount to asking ever y witness simply to testify about what he (reasonably) thinks the ultimate outcome of the trial should be. A further example of so-called 'colonial lag' is tantamount. Omitting biology from the resilience equation is tantamount to omitting psychology. This is tantamount to the network design of trade policy. These constraints make directly conflicting requirements, but still the domination of one by the other is not tantamount to the inactivity of the dominated constraint. This is tantamount to explicitly committing liberalism to the freedom of illocutionar y acts and implicitly praising them for this commitment. One suggests that the act of writing the music down, of copying it, may have been tantamount to the act of composition itself. Relinquishing variation to natural forces was for them tantamount to claiming that variation was arbitrary, with no ordained cause or foreseeable end. It infers, or assumes, that the actual process of having a social relationship is tantamount to receiving support. This, of course, was tantamount to embezzling municipal funds. This formalization is tantamount to treating transition probability as an additional source of information. 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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