英和和英

動詞

add up (third-person singular simple present adds up, present participle adding up, simple past and past participle added up)

1. (transitive, of a numerical amount) To take the sum of; to total.

   Synonyms: sum up, tally, see also Thesaurus:summate

   Add up the prices and find out how much it will cost.

   When they added up the vaccine doses from all known and anticipate sources, they didn't have enough.

2. (intransitive) To accumulate; to amount to.

   Synonyms: accrue, mount up, see also Thesaurus:accumulate

   If you can save even a couple of dollars per day, it will add up to a lot over a year.

   • 1994, Green Day, “Basket Case”, in Dookie:

     It all keeps adding up / I think I'm cracking up / Am I just paranoid? / Or am I just stoned?

   • 2016, Christopher Walker, The First 49:

     The bus wound its way up into San Marino, passing through the various small castellos that add up to form the diminutive country, […]

3. (idiomatic, intransitive) To make sense; to be reasonable or consistent.

   Synonyms: compute, hang together, check out, make sense, track, figure

   His story just doesn't add up. Why would he have been at the restaurant the day before the event?

   • 2007 March 16, Capcom Production Studio 4, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All, Europe: Capcom, →OCLC, Nintendo DS, scene: Part 3: Investigation, Circus Entrance, level/area: Turnabout Big Top:

     Phoenix: (Hmm... Something just isn't adding up here. I wonder, who they really saw?)

Sentences

• it all adds up
• it doesn't add up