(pl. -ies)
1
- a current score or amount得分：
that takes his tally to 10 goals in 10 games.
这使他在十场比赛中的进球数达到了十个。
1.1
- a record of a score or amount记录：
I kept a running tally of David's debt on a note above my desk.
我把大卫的欠债流水账记录在我桌子上的一个纸条上。
1.2
- a particular number taken as a group or unit to facilitate counting用作记数单位的数。
1.3
- a mark registering such a number记数单位。
1.4
- （亦作tally stick）historical a piece of wood scored across with notches for the items of an account and then split into halves, each party keeping one〈史〉符木（古代刻痕记数的木签, 分成两半, 双方各保存一半）。
1.5
- an account kept in such a way账单。
1.6
- archaic a counterpart or duplicate of something〈古〉对等物, 副本。
2
- a label attached to a plant or tree, or stuck in the ground beside it, that gives information about it, such as its name and class（对树或植物进行说明的）标志牌, 标签。
verb
-ies, -ied
1
- no obj. agree or correspond同意; 一致：
their signatures should tally with their names on the register.
他们的签名应当与登记簿上的名字一致。
2
- with obj. calculate the total number of合计; 统计：
the votes were being tallied with abacuses.
选票用算盘统计。
派生词
tallier
noun词源
late Middle English (denoting a notched tally stick)： from Anglo-Norman French tallie, from Latin talea 'twig， cutting'. Compare with TALL2.