1. The error amounts to about one day in 3000 years.
    这种误差3000年能累积到一天。

2. Telephones save the feet and endless amounts of time.
    电话不但能免去你的走路之劳，而且还能为你节约大量时间。

3. The paper-making process uses large amounts of water, burns fossil fuels and produces much chemical waste.
    因为造纸工艺要用去大量的水，燃烧大量的矿物燃料，而且还会产生大量的化学废料。

4. The hospitals had cut way back on the large amounts of pain-killing drugs usually given during and after surgery that were used primarily to control blood pressure, not pain.
    这些医院削减了原本大量使用的止痛药，这些药通常在手术中和手术后都使用，主要是用来控制血压而不是止疼。

5. Neither is it surprising that "people skills" are useful, which amounts to saying it's good to be nice.
    "与人交往的技巧"非常有用，此说也不令人吃惊，这就等于说与人为善是对的。

6. As they consume these resources without restraint, they also waste large amounts of them.
    他们毫无节制地使用这些资源，因此也造成了大量的浪费。