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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Beyond that, we come to the Christ Consciousness, and the totality of the Creator Energy.
  超过那儿，我们到达基督意识，和造物者能量的总体。
• 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。
• The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
  世界是所有事实，而非事物，的总和。
• 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。