英语词汇“never to amount to anything”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(a) intransitive. In negative contexts, as to amount to nothing, not to amount to much, never to amount to anything, etc.: to have little or no significance or success in the end; to fail; to come to nothing.

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1602 A. Munday tr. 3rd Pt. Palmerin of Eng. iv. f. 7 All the Lords & Ladies greatly laboured to comfort Florian,..but all their endeuour amounted to nothing.

1694 A. Irvine Dial. Two Plain Countrey-gentlemen 16 I am afraid the Assurance you boast of will not amount to much, nor can it safely be relyed upon.

1754 tr. Negotiations Count d'Avaux I. 182 [We] had a long conference, which however amounted to nothing.

1885 Arthur's Home Mag. Dec. 502/1 Everybody thinks you will never amount to anything. You won't if you don't try.

1964 C. Isherwood Diary 1 Nov. in Sixties (2010) II. 347 It seems that his show hasn't amounted to much.

2011 S. Reynolds Retromania (2012) viii. 266 Someone who'll never amount to anything, a worthless, low-class nonentity.

单词	never to amount to anything
释义	> as lemmas never to amount to anything (a) intransitive. In negative contexts, as to amount to nothing, not to amount to much, never to amount to anything, etc.: to have little or no significance or success in the end; to fail; to come to nothing. ΚΠ 1602 A. Munday tr. 3rd Pt. Palmerin of Eng. iv. f. 7 All the Lords & Ladies greatly laboured to comfort Florian,..but all their endeuour amounted to nothing. 1694 A. Irvine Dial. Two Plain Countrey-gentlemen 16 I am afraid the Assurance you boast of will not amount to much, nor can it safely be relyed upon. 1754 tr. Negotiations Count d'Avaux I. 182 [We] had a long conference, which however amounted to nothing. 1885 Arthur's Home Mag. Dec. 502/1 Everybody thinks you will never amount to anything. You won't if you don't try. 1964 C. Isherwood Diary 1 Nov. in Sixties (2010) II. 347 It seems that his show hasn't amounted to much. 2011 S. Reynolds Retromania (2012) viii. 266 Someone who'll never amount to anything, a worthless, low-class nonentity. extracted from amountv. < as lemmas
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