a great deal of / a great many / a number of / an amount of / a lot of 意为“许多”

1. a great deal of 后接不可数名词。

2. a great many 后接可数名词复数。

3. a number of 后接可数名词复数。

4. an amount of 后接不可数名词。

5. a lot of 后接不可数名词或可数名词复数。

全部

1·He gave her a fifth of the total amount.

他给了她总数的五分之一。《牛津词典》

2·I've got a terrific amount of work to do.

我有大量的工作要做。《牛津词典》

3·We need double the amount we already have.

我们需要现有数量的两倍。《牛津词典》

4·The generous amount of garlic adds flavour.

大量的蒜会增添滋味。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·He put a limit on the amount we could spend.

他规定了我们开销的数额。《牛津词典》

6·The tank had leaked a small amount of water.

水箱渗漏出少量的水。《牛津词典》

7·I still do a certain amount of work for them.

我仍旧为他们做一定数量的工作。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

8·She has a huge amount of Victorian kitchenware.

她拥有维多利亚时代的大量厨房用具。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

9·You have to allow for a certain amount of error.

你必须考虑到一定数量的错误。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

10·There's been any amount of research into the subject.

对这个课题已进行了大量研究。《牛津词典》

数量

1·We need double the amount we already have.

我们需要现有数量的两倍。《牛津词典》

2·I still do a certain amount of work for them.

我仍旧为他们做一定数量的工作。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·You have to allow for a certain amount of error.

你必须考虑到一定数量的错误。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·It would not be easy to cover ten miles on that amount of petrol.

要靠那些数量的汽油跑10英里可不容易。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·The capital sunk in it is fabulous in amount.

投入的资金数量惊人。《新英汉大辞典》

量

1·I can give you a rough estimate of the amount of wood you will need.

我可以粗略估计一下你所需要的木材量。《牛津词典》

2·To cope with this amount of data, the system will need a bandwidth of around 100mhz.

要处理这样的数据量，这个系统将需要约100兆赫兹的带宽。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·The amount of carbon dioxide released by human activities such as burning coal and oil is small in comparison.

相比之下人类燃烧煤、石油等活动所释放的二氧化碳的量是少的。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·You might have to cut down on the amount of exercise or sport you do.

你可能不得不减少锻炼或运动的量。

5·It's the amount of daylight that triggers the changing of the hare's coat.

正是日光照射的量引起了兔子皮毛的变化。

金额

1·The amount required to redeem the mortgage was $358,587.

偿还抵押贷款所需的金额是$358587。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The amount of money you have to spend will limit your choice.

你要消费的金额限制着你的选择。《牛津词典》

3·The amount will be paid to everyone regardless of whether they have children or not.

不管有没有孩子，每个人都会得到相同的金额。《牛津词典》

4·Make sure that you first check for the total amount that the university owes you.

首先确保你核对了大学欠你的总金额。

5·WeChat limits the amount that can be sent in a single red packet to 200 yuan ($29).

微信将单个红包的金额限制在200元（29美元）。

数额

1·He put a limit on the amount we could spend.

他规定了我们开销的数额。《牛津词典》

2·People who earn under a certain amount are not liable to pay tax.

收入低于一定数额者不必纳税。《牛津词典》

3·Investors can borrow an amount equal to the property's purchase price.

投资者可以借与房地产购买价相等数额的款项。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·We will always confirm the revised amount to you in writing before debiting your account.

在记入你的借方账户前，我们每次都会以书面形式向你确认修改过的数额。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·The salespeople get between $50,000 and $60,000 a year but that amount can double with commission.

推销员每年的收入在5万到6万美元之间，但是加上佣金，那数额能翻倍。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

数目

1·It isn't worth quibbling over such a small amount.

不值得为这样的小数目斤斤计较。《牛津词典》

2·The amount was misstated in the table because of an error by regulators.

由于校准者的失误，图表里的数目是错误的。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·So you were gypped out of one quarter – twenty-five thousand dollars – of the promised amount?

所以你被骗了二万五千美元，相当于承诺数目的四分之一？《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·What if you ask for a smaller amount?

如果你贷款的数目小一点呢？

5·The amount of the donation took us completely by surprise.

捐款的数目完全出乎我们的意料。

程度

1·You are going to have to take a certain amount of criticism, but you must cope with it.

你会受到一定程度的批评，但这是你必须面对的。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Granted, some amount of delusion is probably part of the human condition.

当然，一定程度的妄想可能是人类状况的一部分。

3·Certain plant species won't flower if they sense too much light and some plants will only flower if they sense a specific amount of light.

某些植物种类如果感觉到了太多光就不开花，而有些只有感觉到了一定程度的光才会开花。

4·Scientists and experts have to do a certain amount of data sorting.

科学家和专家们也需要做某种程度的数据排序。

5·However, agile projects might not need or desire the same amount of process control and management.

然而，敏捷项目可能不需要或期望同等程度的过程控制和管理。

额度

1·The cost of the alcohol duty varies according to the amount of wine in the bottle.

这项酒税的额度根据瓶中酒量的不同而变化。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Exception: If you're unsure about your job security, you want to marshal the maximum amount of cash possible.

例外：如果你的工作缺乏安全感，那么你可以调度到最大的资金额度。

3·But a bank's reported earnings aren't a hard number, like sales; for example, they depend a lot on the amount the bank sets aside to cover expected future losses on its loans.

但是，银行报表中的收益并不是类似销售额这样的“硬数据”。这些收益在很大程度上取决于银行拨备的，用来弥补预期未来贷款损失的资金额度。

4·Minimize the costs of extracting a donation and processing it: Give one large amount to your favorite cause rather than small sums to many.

减小选取和进行捐赠的成本的方法就是：把一笔大额度的款项给你所喜欢的目标而不是把它分散给许多小目标。

5·Section 515 capped the housing allowance that can be deducted, with anything over the prescribed amount being counted as taxable income.

该法案第515条规定了可减免的房屋补贴限额，超出指定额度的部分都将作为应税收入。

总数

1·Luckily, there are some guidelines you can follow to help minimize the amount of hackery you have to do when writing code on a deadline.

幸好，这里有几条准则供你参考，可以在临近截止日期时，帮你把不严谨的代码总数最小化。

2·Take the weekly amount you just calculated and divide it by your true hourly wage.

使用你刚刚计算的周总数除以你的每小时工资。

3·The amount of stocks in possession as a ratio of all the stocks issued by the listed company at the time when the report is submitted.

报送上市公司收购报告书时所持有被收购公司股份数占该公司已发行的股份总数的比例。

4·As mentioned above, when looking to measure the success of SOA, the amount of service reuse is frequently used as a metric.

正如上面所说，在衡量SOA成功与否时，服务重用的总数经常被作为重要的衡量指标。

5·But that's also nice, it lets you see how the recursive thing is simply unwrapping but the complexity in terms of the amount of time it takes is going to be the same.

它让我们看到了，在复杂度依照时间总数来看，没有变化的情况下，递归是怎么一步步的展开的，我欠你一个糖，谢谢。

相当于

1·The warming effect of these pollutants, which stay in the atmosphere for several days to about a decade, is already about 80 percent of the amount that carbon dioxide causes.

这些污染物在大气中停留数天或十年左右，它对气候变暖的影响，大约相当于80%的二氧化碳引起气候变暖的效应。

2·10 fractional people with 20% effort might theoretically produce the output of two full-timers, but coordinating 10 fractional does not take the same amount of effort as coordinating 2 people.

10个投入程度为20%的人，他们的产出理论上相当于两个全职人员；但是协调这10个人却要比协调两个人花费更多的精力。

3·Even if all miraculously went right, the product of a year’s worth of back-breaking legislative work would amount to about 1.5% of the total 2010-20 deficit—a drop in the ocean.

即使阴差阳错产生了积极效果，一年的试图通过立法的代价，相当于2010-2020年赤字的1.5%---仍是沧海一粟。

4·Without interest, the amount in today's money would amount to $14 billion.

这笔钱即使不算利息折算到今天也相当于140亿美元。

5·I'd go even further and say that they amount to a mandate, which is this: to safeguard the very America - compassionate, collaborative, decent - that he routinely degrades.

我甚至还要说，它们相当于这样一项授权：让她去捍卫他经常贬损的那个美国，一个既富有同情心又善于协作的体面国家。

(1)large amount大量；巨额；大批

(1)a large amount of大量的（接不可数名词）

(1)small amount小额；小批量

(1)total amount总数；总价；总计

(1)a certain amount of一定数量的

(1)amount of information信息量