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

• 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。
• The Thing, being this totality, is a contradiction.
  “物”作为这种全体，就是矛盾。
• Most of you have been preparing for many lifetimes just to remember the totality of ascension.
  大部份的你们已经准备许多世代只是去记得上升的总体。
• So that totality is remote, and the tasks that subordinate our minds also fragment them.
  所以，整体性是遥远的，我们的心灵被隶属的工作，也使它们变成零碎。
• 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。
• Totality also includes the role of practice in social change.
  总体也包括实践在社会变迁中的作用。
• We have one item that covers our work in its totality, and does so well into the future.
  我们有一个项目，涉及工作的全局，并推展到将来。
• 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。
• Thus the perfected denial of man has taken charge of the totality of human existence.
  因此，对人性的完美的否定便已接管了人类存在的总体。
• 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。