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With personal savings on the rise in the wake of the latest downturn, that grand total looks like it will slip again, to $1.03 trillion, in 2010.
在最近的經(jīng)濟衰退發(fā)生之后，個人儲蓄呈現(xiàn)上升趨勢，似乎總消費額將再次下降，至2010年的1.03萬億美元。
Against that, you can imagine someone who thinks being alive per se is so incredibly valuable that no matter how horrible the contents are, the grand total will always be positive.
與之相反，你可以想象有些人會認為,活著本身有著巨大的價值,不管生活內(nèi)容有多糟糕，總和都會是正數(shù)。
Now, notice that since we are adding extra positive facts, extra positive points, for the fact that you're alive, even if the contents subtotal is negative, the grand total could still be positive.
由于我們添加了額外的積極事物，額外的正數(shù)，因為你活著，就算生活內(nèi)容的部分總和是負數(shù)，但它的總和可能仍然是正數(shù)。

See whether the grand total of pleasures is greater than the grand totals of pain.
看快樂的總數(shù),是否大于痛苦的總數(shù)。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選
And during the siege there were sixty-five balloon flights carrying two and a half million letters, weighing a grand total of 10,000 kilograms, so roughly about 20,000 pounds.
在巴黎被圍期間,共放出了六十五個熱氣球,帶走了多達兩百五十萬封信,合計重量約有一萬公斤,也就是兩萬磅左右
耶魯公開課 - 1871年后的法國課程節(jié)選
Against that, you can imagine someone who thinks being alive per se is so incredibly valuable that no matter how horrible the contents are, the grand total will always be positive.
與之相反，你可以想象有些人會認為,活著本身有著巨大的價值,不管生活內(nèi)容有多糟糕，總和都會是正數(shù)。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選

After two years they had a cumbersome system and a grand total of two dozen articles.
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