- [intransitive] tally (with something) to be the same as or to match another person’s account of something, another set of figures, etc.(说法、数字等)与…符合(或一致);吻合 synonym match up (with something)
- Her report of what happened tallied exactly with the story of another witness.她对于事情的叙述和另一个证人的说法完全吻合。
- The two accounts tally precisely/closely/fairly well.这两个账目精确/接近/相当吻合。
- [transitive] tally something (up) to calculate the total number, cost, etc. of something计算(总的数目、成本等);合计
- When we tallied up the cost of moving, we decided against it.计算了搬迁的成本之后,我们决定不这样做。
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting a notched tally stick): from Anglo-Norman French tallie, from Latin talea ‘twig, cutting’.