totality
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How to pronounce totality in British English:
英 [təʊˈtæləti]
How to pronounce totality in American English:
美 [toʊˈtæləti]
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- Noun:
- the state of being total
- the quality of being complete and indiscriminate
- the whole amount
单词词源
- totality (n.)
- 1590s, from total (adj.) + -ity, or from or based on Middle French totalité, Medieval Latin totalitas. In the eclipse sense, "time of total obscuration," from 1842.
双语例句
- 1. The right approach for firb if they believe there is such a move is to look at these transactions in their totality .
- 2. As proponents of the wisdom of crowds argue , much individual irrationality is cancelled out in the totality of the judgments made in markets .
- 3. Of fulfilling that promise in totality .
- 4. During an average total lunar eclipse , the moon is within the earth 's umbra for about an hour . This is called totality .
- 5. The moral imperative is not whether the write-downs are distributed fairly , but rather : is the plan in totality good for society , for the economy itself ?