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.
权威例句
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。
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。
3. 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.
4. The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms, the totality of nature.
美的标准是自然界各种形体整个的变化顺序, 即:自然界的总汇.
5. The totality of true thoughts is a picture of the world.