an amount of

基本解释

Notice that we specify an amount of $150, implying that this will need manager approval.
注意，我们指定的金额是 150 美元，这意味着需要经理的审批。
A life insurance agent will help you determine an amount of insurance needed to protect your family or business in the event of your death.
人寿保险代理将会协助你确定，在你死亡以后，为了保护你的家人或者企业所需的保险金额。
Once at the checkout aisle, the customer actually checks out -- which takes an amount of time proportionate to the number of items purchased.
一旦来到付款通道，顾客实际上就在付款了 — 所花时间与所购商品的数量成比例。

Each token represented an amount of money.
He's earned the right to treat himself to this absolutely lovely -what must have been an extraordinary amount of fun to write -lovely catalog of flowers.
他已经得到了游荡的可爱之处,写这些一定会特别有趣,可爱的花丛中的权力。
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The code is unusually conspicuous, complex, and enigmatic; it attracts an inordinate amount of attention to itself, and this attention has to acquire the rigor of a method.
这种代码通常很显著，复杂，神秘;,它把大量的注意力都吸引到自己身上，这种注意力得有一种方法的严肃性。
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The issuance of so inordinate an amount of public debt would crush the value of Japanese bonds.
FORBES: The sinking yen