- 1等同於、無異於（後接不好的事）。台灣書面語常見「無異於」「形同」，例如「形同放棄」。注意它是評論性的用法，說話者在指控，不是中性描述；口語幾乎不用。
Tantamount says two things are not the same, but come to the same thing. It appears in one fixed shape — X is tantamount to Y — and almost always when Y is bad: "Saying nothing was tantamount to agreeing", "Such a cut would be tantamount to closing the hospital". The speaker is arguing, not describing: they are saying that whatever you call your action, this is what it really amounts to. So you meet it in newspapers, courtrooms, editorials, and formal complaints, rarely in conversation. Grammar note that catches : it is an adjective, but it never sits before a noun. You cannot say "a tantamount decision". It goes after be, seem, or amount, and it must bring to with it. Very close in meaning to "as good as" and "amounts to", which are what people say out loud instead.
組成Comes into English around 1628, from the idea "to amount to as much" — either through Anglo-Norman tant amount (tant "as much" + amonter "to amount to") or from Italian tanto montare, which says the same. So the word was once a small sentence: it climbs to as much.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
tantamountadj/ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/
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Equivalent in meaning or effect; amounting to the same thing in practical terms, even if being technically distinct.
- Every moment might bring the British cruisers in sight,—two important expeditions had already been baffled in that way,—and the absolute certainty, known to all parties alike, that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin; […]
- […] expecting the woman to take her attacker into physical custody is tantamount to preventing the arrest. If she could handle him, she probably would not need to call the police in the first place.
tantamountverb/ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/
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obsoleteTo amount to as much; to be equivalent.
- […] and yet this will not tant’amount to an immediate Divine inſtitution for Deacons, and how can it then for Presbyters ?
tantamountnoun/ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/
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obsoleteSomething which has the same value or amount (as something else). (attributive use passing into adjective, below)
- For end thereof, not despondency but madness : for when Cossey understood that Hobday had called his wife a tantamount, he waited for him outside, and gave him what he called a pair of clippers over the ear.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。