total

英 ['t??t(?)l] 美['totl]

反義詞

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第三人稱單數(shù):?totals;過(guò)去式:?totalled;過(guò)去分詞:?totalled;現(xiàn)在分詞:?totalling;

1、tot- + -al.
2. 諧音：統(tǒng)統(tǒng).
3. 道達(dá)爾公司（Total）是全球四大石油化工公司之一，總部設(shè)在法國(guó)巴黎，在全球超過(guò)110個(gè)國(guó)家開(kāi)展?jié)櫥蜆I(yè)務(wù)。

total 總的，總計(jì)的，徹底的，完全的

來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ) totus,總的，全部的。

total: total: [14] Total goes back ultimately to Latin tōtus ‘whole’ (source also of French tout, Italian tutto, and Spanish todo ‘a(chǎn)ll’). From it was derived medieval Latin totālis ‘of the whole’, which passed into English via Old French total. Tot [18], as in ‘tot up’, is short for total. Totalizator was coined in Australia in the late 1870s, and the abbreviation tote started life in Australian English too.
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total (v.): 1716, "bring to a total," from total (n.). Intransitive sense "reach a total of" is from 1859. Meaning "to destroy one's car" first recorded 1954. Related: Totaled; totaling.
total (n.): "whole amount, sum," 1550s, from total (adj.).
total (adj.): late 14c., from Old French total (14c.), from Medieval Latin totalis "entire, total" (as in summa totalis "sum total"), from Latin totus "all, all at once, the whole, entire, altogether," of unknown origin. Total war is attested from 1937 (William Shirer), in reference to a concept developed in Germany.

1. The job losses will reduce the total workforce to 7,000.: 職位減少后，在職工人總數(shù)將減至7,000人。

2. The total cost of the project would be more than $240 million.: 該項(xiàng)目的總成本會(huì)超過(guò)2.4億美元。

3. Each month the total prize kitty is ￡13.5 million.: 每個(gè)月的彩池獎(jiǎng)金總額達(dá)1,350萬(wàn)英鎊。

4. She wrinkled her nose, piqued by his total lack of enthusiasm.: 她皺皺鼻子，為他毫無(wú)熱情而感到不快。

5. Rude taxi drivers clocked up a total of 239 offences in 1990.: 1990年，出租車司機(jī)魯莽駕駛導(dǎo)致的違章事件總共達(dá)239起。