Aggregate

(noun.) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together.

(noun.) material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster.

(verb.) gather in a mass, sum, or whole.

(verb.) amount in the aggregate to.

(adj.) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole; 'aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year'; 'the aggregated amount of indebtedness' .

(adj.) composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets; 'raspberries are aggregate fruits' .

校对:沃尔多

• The 8000 or so motion-picture theatres of the country employ no fewer than 40,000 people, whose aggregate annual income amounts to not less than $37,000,000. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Humanity is a huge aggregate lie, and a huge lie is less than a small truth. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Long in the aggregate, though short as they went by. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• And consequently three cheers for the United Aggregate Tribunal! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• But it may be seriously questioned whether in the aggregate Edison's visitors are less numerous or less time-consuming than his epistolary besiegers. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The steamship lines were carrying Americans out of the various ports of the country at the rate of four or five thousand a week in the aggregate. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• These latter cells are nearly spherical and of nearly equal sizes, and are aggregated into an irregular mass. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

校对:奥利弗