PHR-V-LINK 等同；接近 If you say that one thing amounts to something else, you consider the first thing to be the same as the second thing. 等同；接近
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The confessions were obtained by what amounts to torture. [VERB PREP. noun]
这些供状是用近乎逼供的方式得来的。
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...a schoolboy comedy, which amounted to little more than slapstick. [VERB PREP. noun]
接近于打闹剧的校园男孩喜剧