tally
tally 英 [ˈtæli] 美 [ˈtæli]
n. 计数，记录，记账 vt. 吻合
进行时:tallying 过去式:tallied 过去分词:tallied 第三人称单数:tallies 名词复数:tallies
- A tally is a continuous count of something, like the number of words in a document, or the number of favors your best friend owes you. To tally is to add up, like keeping the score of a game.
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- n. 计数，记录，记账
- vt. 吻合
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1. He hopes to improve on his tally of three goals in the past nine games.
他希望提高在过去九场比赛中打进三球的纪录。
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2. Keep a tally of how much you spend while you're away.
在外出期间，把你的花费都记录下来。
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3. Her report of what happened tallied exactly with the story of another witness.
她对于事情的叙述和另一个证人的说法完全吻合。
- tally (n.) mid-15c., "stick marked with notches to indicate amount owed or paid," from Anglo-French tallie (early 14c., Old French taille "notch in a piece of wood signifying a debt"), Anglo-Latin talea (late 12c.), from Medieval Latin tallia, from Latin talea "a cutting, rod, stick" (see tailor (n.), and compare sense history of score). Meaning "a thing that matches another" first recorded 1650s, from practice of splitting a tally lengthwise across the notches, debtor and creditor each retaining one of the halves; the usual method of keeping accounts before writing became general (the size of the notches varied with the amount). Sports sense of "a total score" is from 1856. Also in 19c. British provincial verbal expression live tally, make a tally bargain "live as husband and wife without marrying."
- tally (v.) mid-15c., "keep an account by tally," from Medieval Latin talliare "to tax," from tallia (see tally (n.)). Meaning "correspond, agree" is from 1705; sports sense of "to score" is from 1867. Related: Tallied; tallying. Hence tally-sheet (1889); tallyman "one who keeps account (of anything)" (1857).
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