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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It is essence put explicitly as a totality.
  根据就是被设定为全体的本质。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。