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

• 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。
• 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。
• You have not seen me in my totality.
  你只是将我看成一个应身佛。
• 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。
• But as it is invested with the character of total notion, it is the contradiction between this totality and the special mode of its existence.
  根据这种规定性，它就有了它的实际存在。但作为概念的设定起来的全体性，客体就是它的这种全体性与它的实际存在的规定性之间的矛盾。
• 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。
• We need to consider the situation in its totality.
  我们需要从整体上考虑一下形势。
• The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
  世界是所有事实，而非事物，的总和。
• 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！