total

英['təʊt(ə)l]美['totl]

反义词partial

第三人称单数: totals;过去式: totalled;过去分词: totalled;现在分词: totalling;

1、tot- + -al.
2. 谐音：统统.
3. 道达尔公司（Total）是全球四大石油化工公司之一，总部设在法国巴黎，在全球超过110个国家开展润滑油业务。

total 总的，总计的，彻底的，完全的

来自拉丁语 totus,总的，全部的。

total: total: [14] Total goes back ultimately to Latin tōtus ‘whole’ (source also of French tout, Italian tutto, and Spanish todo ‘all’). 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.: 职位减少后，在职工人总数将减至7,000人。

2. The total cost of the project would be more than $240 million.: 该项目的总成本会超过2.4亿美元。

4. She wrinkled her nose, piqued by his total lack of enthusiasm.: 她皱皱鼻子，为他毫无热情而感到不快。

5. Rude taxi drivers clocked up a total of 239 offences in 1990.: 1990年，出租车司机鲁莽驾驶导致的违章事件总共达239起。