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 Thing, being this totality, is a contradiction.
  “物”作为这种全体，就是矛盾。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• Surely a school is a place where one learns about the totality, the wholeness of life.
  学校是一个学习生命的全部内容和生命的完整性的地方。
• Literature is deeply rooted and intertwined with life's totality.
  文学作品始终是同大众生活根深蒂固的交织在一起的。
• 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。
• None of the other specific notions exhibits this totality complete on both its sides as the notion itself and objectivity.
  除了概念本身和客观性外，没有任何别的特定的概念在这两方面都能达到完成的全体。
• The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
  世界是所有事实，而非事物，的总和。
• 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。