totality

英 [təʊˈtæləti]

美 [toʊˈtæləti]

n.  全体; 全部; 整个; 总数; 总额

复数：totalities　

TOEFL

BNC.12718 / COCA.11619

牛津词典

noun

• 全体；全部；整个；总数；总额
  the state of being complete or whole; the whole number or amount
  1. The seriousness of the situation is difficult to appreciate in its totality .
     很难从全局上理解局势的严重性。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 全体;整个;全部
  Thetotality ofsomething is the whole of it.
  1. ...a process of social, economic and political change which involves the totality of human experience...
     涉及人类全部经验的社会、经济和政治变革过程
  2. He did not want to reform the criminal justice system in its totality.
     他不想全盘改革刑事司法制度。

英英释义

noun

• the whole amount
  Synonym:sumtotalaggregate
• the quality of being complete and indiscriminate
  1. the totality of war and its consequences
  2. the all-embracing totality of the state
• the state of being total and complete
  1. he read the article in its entirety
  2. appalled by the totality of the destruction
  Synonym:entiretyentirenessintegrality

双语例句

• The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
  世界是所有事实，而非事物，的总和。
• For the totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.
  12因为事实的总和既断定了什么是真的，也断定了什么不是真的。
• That is to say you can still have a sense of explaining the totality of things that philosophy needs if it's going to function as philosophy or as philosophy properly should.
  即，你个人如同哲学需要的那般的那般，对事物作整体解释仍然是有意义的，如果这将像哲学或者哲学应该的那样发挥作用的话，或者哲学应该的那样发挥作用的话。
• The totality of financial claims is now too big to be supported by the new economic reality.
  目前，金融债权总额的规模过大，新的经济现实无力支撑。
• But there is no reason to assume that these modifications have to affect the totality of adopted doctrine.
  但这没有理由假设这些修正会影响采纳教义的整体。
• Quality is the totality of characteristics of an entity that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs.
  质量是：反映一个实体满足明确和隐含需要能力的特征的总和。
• Your physical body seems small compared to your totality, but it is alive and well.
  你的物质身体相较于你的总体似乎很小的，但是它是活著的而且很好地。
• Instead they suspend the critique which the successful aesthetic totality exerts against the flawed one of society.
  人们已经抛弃了完美的美学整体性，对抗社会残次品的批评，只着眼于局部本身。
• These steps are in their totality, I fear, an assault on American principles and on capitalism itself.
  我担心，这是对美国准则的攻击，是对资本主义本身的侵犯。
• We need to consider the situation in its totality.
  我们需要从整体上考虑一下形势。