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。
• It is essence put explicitly as a totality.
  根据就是被设定为全体的本质。
• You have not seen me in my totality.
  你只是将我看成一个应身佛。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。