a quantity of和quantities of的區(qū)別

quantities of:修飾不可數名詞時,謂語用復數，例如Quantities of food (nuts) were on the table；a quantity of:修飾不可數名詞時,謂語用單數。例如A large quantity of beer was sold out。

(1)相同點：① 兩者都可以修飾可數名詞或不可數名詞。

②它們的意思都是“大量”

(2)類似：a lot of 和lots of

(3)例句：

①The quantities of each element type will be handy tools for estimating the total effort required.

每種元素類型的數量對于估計所需的總工作量將是便利的工具。

②The government, after this time, did issue contracts to manufacturing companies to produce new quantities of the virus.

在此事件之后,美國政府,和病毒生產企業(yè)簽了,生產一些病毒的合同。

③And the solution to this equation looks like this where it is written in terms of a quantity called a wavefunction.

這個方程的解法是,看起來像是寫成數學符號就是,波函數。

④This kind of migration is tedious and has a high cost in terms of money and time when there is a quantity of data involved.

當涉及到大量數據的時候，這種類型的移植操作單調冗長而且會花費大量的資金和時間。