2008年12月23日 星期二

Tally

Tally:(v.)to be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match; to make a tally; to score; to tally in a game.
(n.)the act of counting;a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely; a bill for an amount due

Tally shop: a shop at which goods or articles are sold to customers on account, the account being kept in corresponding books, one called the tally, kept by the buyer, the other the counter tally, kept by the seller, and the payments being made weekly or otherwise by agreement. The trade thus regulated is called tally trade.

EX:Palm Beach and New York may have been hardest hit by the Bernard Madoff scandal, but residents in Aspen, Colo., are quietly tallying up massive losses.

EX:For the first time in more than 18 months, the number of working oil and gas rigs in the United States surpassed last year's tally at this time, Baker Hughes Inc. said Friday.The rig count climbed by 16, to 803, compared with 797 in the comparable week a year ago. The last time the count was higher than the previous year was in the week of March 29, 1991.(The New York Times)

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