total是什么意思

total

英 ['t??t(?)l] 美 ['totl]

1、tot- + -al.
2. 諧音：統統.
3. 道達爾公司（Total）是全球四大石油化工公司之一，總部設在法國巴黎，在全球超過110個國家開展潤滑油業務。

total 總的，總計的，徹底的，完全的

來自拉丁語 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 ‘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.: 職位減少后，在職工人總數將減至7,000人。

2. The total cost of the project would be more than $240 million.: 該項目的總成本會超過2.4億美元。

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

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