tally
tally 英 [ˈtæli] 美 [ˈtæli]
n. 计数器；标签；记账 vt. 使符合；计算；记录 vi. 一致；记分
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. 计数器；标签；记账
- vt. 使符合；计算；记录
- vi. 一致；记分
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1. Her story doesn't tally with his.
她和他的口径不一致。
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2. By one tally, the Raptor had 45 supporters in the Senate. Gates had only 23 backers.
逐个记分，这只猛禽在参议院有45个支持者，盖茨只有23个支持者。
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3. As you'd expect, the net keeps an ongoing tally of these products.
正如您所预料的，网络会 保持这些乘积的一个使用中的计数器。
- 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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