sum up
phrasal verbsum up | sum something up
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to state the main points of something in a short and clear form 总结；概括 To sum up, there are three main ways of tackling the problem… 概括起来说，这一问题主要有三种解决办法… The report attempts to sum up recent economic trends. 该报道试图总结最近的经济走势。 The storyline can be summed up in a few sentences. 故事情节可以用几句话概括。 - sum up what…
Can I just sum up what we've agreed so far? 我可否就我们目前已经达成的共识作个概括？
(of a judge 法官 to give a summary of the main facts and arguments in a legal case, near the end of a trial （审理结束前）作概述
sum somebody/something up
to describe or show the most typical characteristics of somebody/something, especially in a few words 简而言之 Totally lazy—that just about sums him up. 懒到家了，这大体上就是他的真实写照。 One young mother summed up the feelings of many parents when she said:… 一位年轻的母亲总结了许多父母的感受，她说:…
Extra Examples‘So we're stuck in this place with no food?’ ‘That just about sums it up.’ “这么说我们困在了这个地方，没有食物？”“的确如此。” Her whole philosophy can be summed up as ‘so what?’. 她的全部人生哲学可以概括为“那又怎么样？”。 The appeal of this charming little town is hard to sum up. 这座迷人小镇的魅力三言两语难以讲明。 She summed it up as ‘the most brilliant lecture I've ever attended’. 她将其概括为“我所听过的最棒的讲座”。 For me, the novel summed up the major problems of human existence. 对我来说，小说总结了人类存在的主要问题。
to form or express an opinion of somebody/something 估量；判断