- [intransitive] tally (with something) to be the same as or to match another person’s account of something, another set of figures, etc.(說法、數字等)與…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.她對於事情的叙述和另一個證人的說法完全吻合。
- The two accounts tally precisely/closely/fairly well.這兩個賬目精確/接近/相當吻合。
- [transitive] tally something (up) to calculate the total number, cost, etc. of something計算(總的數目、成本等);合計
- When we tallied up the cost of moving, we decided against it.計算了搬遷的成本之後,我們決定不這樣做。
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting a notched tally stick): from Anglo-Norman French tallie, from Latin talea ‘twig, cutting’.