Oh, come on! An excuse like that is tantamount to lying.

哦，得了得了！这样的借口跟说谎有什么两样。

In Iran, it was viewed as tantamount to an act of war.

伊朗方面也认为此次袭击无异于发动了一起战争。

Thus drilling into the ice was tantamount to drilling back through time.

钻冰相当于穿越回从前。

But is that tantamount to an apology for U.S. actions in the 12- year war?

但是这是等同于美国对这场12年战争的行为道歉?

For two thirds of people, this confusion was tantamount to deja vu.

三分之二的人都受到这种类似“幻觉记忆”的混淆。

This one on Fox News, which for Gaetz is tantamount to batting practice.

在《福克斯新闻》上的这次露面对盖兹来说就好比是击球练习。

For some, watching chess might be tantamount to watching paint dry or golf on television.

对一些人来说，观看国际象棋可能等同于观看电视上的油漆变干或是观看高尔夫球。

That will be tantamount to enshrining in the global community in equality of the highest order.

这将等同于在国际社会中尊崇最高级别的平等。

Being denied access to a bank account was tantamount to not existing.

被拒绝访问银行账户就等于不存在。

They believe that that is... tantamount to ingesting it which the Bible forbids.

他们认为这… … 等同于摄入《圣经》所禁止的物质。

So, what if you're the kind of person whom any bit of social acrobatics is tantamount to entering a lions dance?

所以，万一你就是在任何社交活动都感到像是羊入虎口的人，该怎么办呢？

It would be tantamount to full-on government endorsement of deviant vampiric behavior.

会令他们以为政府全面认可了非正常的吸血鬼行为。

Rather, the more sophisticated point was that bank chaos and market turmoil were themselves tantamount to rate increases.

相反，更复杂的一点是，银行混乱和市场动荡本身就等同于加息。

In its crudest form, this is tantamount to assuming that the reduction in money-wages will leave demand unaffected.

以最粗略的形式，这相当于假设货币工资的减少不会影响需求。

Rather than oh, sorry, my bad, Cixi instead declared that the Regents had disrespected the young emperor and act tantamount to treason.

慈禧没有说，对不起，我的错，反而宣称摄政王不尊重年轻的皇帝，行为等同于叛国。

Which is tantamount to saying that the air contained in the Nautilus would be exactly enough for 625 men over twenty-four hours.

这就是说，诺第留斯号所有的空气可以供应六百二十五人在二十四小时内呼吸之用。

The UK's foreign secretary Dominic Raab has said that Tehran's treatment of the detained dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is tantamount to torture.

英国外交大臣多米尼克·拉布表示，德黑兰对待拥有双重国籍的纳扎宁·扎格哈里-拉特克利夫的拘留方式无异于酷刑。

The commissioner said Mr Trudeau and his office acted outside the bounds of convention, and that their behaviour was " tantamount to political direction" .

该专员表示，特鲁多及其办公室的行为超出了法律的范围，他们的行为“等同于指导政治方向”。

This, though he does not stop to mention it, is tantamount to assuming that marginal wage-cost is equal to marginal prime cost.

尽管他不停地提到这一点， 但这等于假设边际工资成本等于边际主要成本。

Ultimately, this is tantamount to financing government borrowing through the back-door—something that tends to end up with markets pricing in runaway inflation.

最终，这无异于通过后门为政府借款提供资金——这往往最终导致市场定价失控的通胀。