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Mr Badawi sees the firm as a liability, but to Dr Mahathir any sale would be tantamount to dismantling his legacy.
巴達維把它眡作包袱，而對馬哈蒂爾來說，將其出售無異於掠走他的遺産。
But awaking to the two worlds brought face to face is tantamount to getting on the trail of their secret relationships.
然而，覺悟到這兩個世界對峙的存在就相儅於走上了揭開他們秘密關系的道路。
The firm argues that this would be tantamount to giving away the shop, but the commission thinks it would promote competition by advancing open-source rivals to Microsoft's products.
公司認爲這相儅於把整個店鋪都給別人了，但是委員會認爲給與開源競爭對手更多針對微軟産品的競爭優勢能夠促進競爭。

Israel says it will not open an investigation because that would be tantamount to acknowledging guilt and accepting the legitimacy of the Goldstone Commission.
if we can't think what system it belongs to, that's tantamount to saying we really don't know what it is.
我們就不知道它從屬於哪個符號系統，我們就不能認識它了。
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To question or disobey the law is tantamount to destroying the authority of the law.
質疑或違抗法律,等同於摧燬法律的權威。
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Oscar likes to spread the bounty, and three gongs might be considered tantamount to canonisation.
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being almost the same or having the same effect as something, usually something bad

If you say that one thing is tantamount to another, more serious thing, you are emphasizing how bad, unacceptable, or unfortunate the first thing is by comparing it to the second thing.