The court’s decision amounts to a not guilty verdict.
法庭的裁决等于是宣判无罪。
Ultimately, their ideas amount to the same thing.
归根结底,他们的想法都是一回事。
c)not amount to much/anything/a great deal etcUNIMPORTANT to not be important, valuable, or successful 没多少意义[价值,成就等]
Her academic achievements don’t amount to much.
她的学习成绩不怎么样。
Jim’s never going to amount to much.
吉姆永远不会有多大出息。
Examples from the Corpus
amount to the same thing• She may not have killed him herself, but helping Dave to do it amounts to the same thing.• And even if it is not significant, it has the potential to be so-which amounts to the same thing.• Charges often amount to the same thing.• Since it formed a halo over the puck, did that amount to the same thing?• When electricalcurrentsflow they producemagneticfields and so it is possible that these two therapiesamount to the same thing.• And literature will amount to the same thing: all writers are copycats.