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

• 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。
• The Thing, being this totality, is a contradiction.
  “物”作为这种全体，就是矛盾。
• 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。
• 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 totality of true thoughts is a picture of the world.
  01所有真的思想的总和就构成了整个现实世界一幅图画。
• 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。
• But there is no reason to assume that these modifications have to affect the totality of adopted doctrine.
  但这没有理由假设这些修正会影响采纳教义的整体。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。