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

• We need to consider the situation in its totality.
  我们需要从整体上考虑一下形势。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Cosmology: The study of the physical universe considered as a totality of phenomena in time and space.
  宇宙学：把有形的宇宙当做时空中的各种现象的总和来研究的科学。
• 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。
• You are so quick to speak for the totality, the universe and such imaginary things!
  您那么干脆为全部、宇宙和这样虚构的事讲话！
• In consumer era, design art and multi-culture mutually construct and embed the narrative mode about social totality.
  消费时代的设计艺术与多元文化相互建构并嵌入了社会总体性叙事。