英语释义

1. using the tune of (a particular song)
Amusing lyrics were sung to the tune of "New York, New York."

片语

amount总计，合计；等于，相当于；发展成，变成

sub total共计

英汉例句

• The fees for this advice are no fairy tale—some play out to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

  这项咨询服务的收费可就不如童话中那么美好了——有些高达成百上千美元。

• A hopeless attachment is as pretty an accompaniment to the tune of life as a gentleman might wish to have.

  对于一个只能希望的绅士来说，毫无希望的眷恋仍是生活主旋律的一个可爱的伴奏。

• Money, to the tune of $97, 000, was stuffed in an Apple Jacks cereal box.

  达97，000美元之多的现金装在苹果杰克的麦片盒里。

• The request was approved in May to the tune of $146.2 billion, and not a moment too soon.

  这一请求在5月份获得通过，并得到1462亿美元的援助，真是言犹在耳啊。

• More than 600 active chemicals are registered for agricultural use in America, to the tune of billions of pounds annually.

  美国600多种现行的化学药品被注册在农业中使用，每年使用达数十亿镑。

• The oars were silver, /Which to the tune of flutes kept stro k e, and made the/Water which they beat to follow fast.

  银色的船桨，随着笛声拍节在水中摇划，击起了层层水波，癡情地紧追不舍。

• Om has suggested a number of times that Facebook simply buy Skype, but of course, it’s too late now as Microsoft has already made the investment to the tune of $8.5 billion last month.

  om（原文所在网站）已经很多次建议facebook直接收购skype，但是很显然现在迟了，上个月微软已经用85亿投资收购了skype。

• The fund bailed out Ukraine to the tune of $16.4 billion, and was relatively lenient over its conditions.

  这笔资金给乌克兰提供了总计达164亿美元的援助。

• Insured people and taxpayers are forced to cross-subsidise such 「uncompensated」 and wasteful treatments to the tune of tens of billions of dollars per year.

  投保人和纳税人被迫补贴这些「无保」户，一年浪费的治疗费用可达上百亿美元之巨。

• Unsurprisingly, this has led to any number of jokes and even a song performed on Italian network television to the tune of Shakira’s Waka Waka World Cup anthem.

  毫不意外，这导致出现大量以此为题材的笑话，甚至在意大利网络电视上还流传一首以Shakira的《WakaWaka 》（本届世界杯主题曲）为曲调的改编歌曲。

• Although Cookie Monster was allowed to keep his namesake in the end, he began to incorporate fruits and vegetables into his diet all to the tune of his new song, 「a Cookie is a Sometime Food.」

  尽管饼干怪兽最后被允许保留原名，他开始将水果蔬菜加进他的食物中，而这些也加进了他的新歌。「饼干是一种零食。」

• A building of massive proportions appears before our eyes as if overnight, followed by jubilant fireworks, illuminating the darkness to the tune of Silent night, sung in a syrupy Mandarin.

  一座气势宏伟的建筑物仿佛一夜之间出现在我们眼前，紧接着是喜庆的焰火，伴随着用甜美的普通话演唱的《平安夜》的旋律，照亮了黑暗。

• We were robbed to the tune of fifty pounds.

  我们被抢去的钱计有五十镑。

• Yet, it turns out this form was preventing customers from purchasing products from a major e-commerce site, to the tune of $300,000,000 a year.

  但结果就是这个表单阻碍了用户在一家大型电子商务网站的购买行为，造成的损失达每年3亿美元之多。

• Birth is a kind of discontinuity between the prenatal and post-natal clinics, while death just takes somebody out of the community, possibly to the tune of prerecorded hymns at the funeral parlor.

  出生是出生前和出生后之间的一种间断，而死亡只是使某人脱离社会团体，送到播着预先录制好圣歌的殡仪。

• All these cuts add up, needless to say, for a federal budget already straining to the tune of trillion-dollar-plus annual deficits.

  为了弥补上万亿美元的年度赤字，美国联邦预算已经捉襟见肘，而所有这些减免加在一起，不用说更令联邦预算雪上加霜。

• I thus found myself rich once more to the tune of ten thousand francs or so, in addition to my allowance.

  于是我身边又有了一万左右法郎，我的津贴费还不算在内。

• Will you like to go dancing to the tune of the music and sweating it out again?

  你愿意再次随着音乐舞到大汗淋漓吗？

• ON FRIENDS: 「Wealth can be a barrier to connecting with other people, 」 writes the spouse of a tech wizard who cashed in to the tune of $80 million.

  关于朋友：「财富是与他人交流的障碍，」一个拥有现金达到八千万的技术天才的妻子写到。

• Investors punished Dell to the tune of a 10.1% drop Wednesday, and a number of other technology stocks seemed to suffer from guilt by association as Hewlett-Packard fell 3.7% and Intel lost 0.6%.

  为此投资者纷纷抛售戴尔股票，致使该股周三跌幅高达10.1%，而其他一些科技股似乎因此而受到拖累，惠普下跌3.7%，英特尔下跌0.6%。

• And, boy, do Solidarium products sell — to the tune of over 100,000 purchases!

  苏力达瑞姆的产品销售良好---销售次数超过100，000次。

• They refinanced the house with three mortgages to the tune of $330, 000, using the money to help pay for their daughter「s tuition and for care of their son.

  他们通过三种贷款把房子进行再抵押，获得了高达33万美元的贷款，把这些钱用于支付女儿的学费和照顾他们的儿子。

• A state」s witness says bribes were indeed paid, to the tune of millions of shekels.

  一位国家证人透露，开发商进行了行贿，数额高达数百万舍客勒。