The total number or cost of something is the number or cost that you get when you add together or count all the parts in it.
They said that the total number of cows dying from BSE would be twenty thousand.
他们说死于疯牛病的奶牛总数会有2万头。
The total cost of the project would be more than $240 million.
该项目的总开销应超过2.4亿美元。
You can use total to emphasize that something is as great in extent, degree, or amount as it possibly can be.
You were a total failure if you hadn't married by the time you were about twenty-three.
你如果在二十三岁左右还没结婚,就是一个彻底的失败者。
totals
A total is the number that you get when you add several numbers together or when you count how many things there are in a group.
The companies have a total of 1,776 employees.
这些公司总共有1776名雇员。
in total
If there are a number of things in total, there are that number when you count or add them all together.
I was with my husband for eight years in total.
我和我丈夫在一起总共8年。
totals , totalling , totalled
If several numbers or things total a certain figure, that figure is the total of all the numbers or all the things.
The unit's exports will total $85 million this year.
今年该单位的出口总计将达8500万美元。