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sum TOTALsQmn [U]the whole number or amount when two or more numbers or amounts have been added together总数，总和The sum of thirteen and eight is twenty-one.13和8的和是21。So what's the grand sum--how much money have we collected altogether?那么总额是多少----我们一共筹集了多少钱？(fig.) So is that the entire sum of three day's work? (= Is there no more?)那么这就是工作三天的全部报酬吗？(fml) The meeting was, in sum (= considered as a whole), a disaster.总的来说会议是失败的。The sum total of something is the whole of it, or everything.总和，全部，所有It's the sum total of what you eat over a long period that matters and not what you consume in a day.重要的是你长期以来吃的全部食品而不是一天内的消费。It's wrong to judge someone on the basis of one part of their life rather than the sum total of it.根据一个人某一生活阶段而不是一生所为来判断他的是非成败是错误的。"The whole is more than the sum of its parts" (from the Metaphysics of Aristotle, 384--322B.C.)“总数大于各部分之和”（选自亚力士多德的《形而上学》）
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