On the whole, I'm in favour of the idea.

大体说来，我赞成这个想法。

《牛津词典》

For the purposes of social life, in addition to the convention about harvest-time, a most elaborate code of honour has been established and is on the whole faithfully observed.

为了社会生活目的，除了关于收获季节的惯例外，还制定了一套最详尽的荣誉准则，而且总体上是需要严格遵守的。

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She believed in capturing the whole person, not just what was on the surface, that's where the expressionists' distortion is important, in an attempt to reveal the subjects' character or personality.

她坚信要捕捉到整个人物的特点，而不是表象的东西。这就体现了表现主义扭曲的重要性，试图揭示人物的性格及特点。

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She says the increase in income has a huge effect on the whole community as well.

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And so for the three years that I was in the residential colleges, my closest friends on the whole were faculty or were .

因此，那三年来,我住在住宿学院中，总体说来，我最好的朋友,都是教员或一些研究生们。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So this particular vector, you probably can't even see the whole thing on your screen. Well, it's got 40 items in it.

这个特殊的向量，在你的屏幕上可能都看不全,好的，它一共包括40件物品。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And this difference was put down to the fact that those volunteering to take part in the trial were on the whole healthier than an average cross section of women.

BBC: Removing benign cysts 'saves no lives'

"If we agree we will have a blueprint, " said the CDU MP Mr Brinkhaus, "and next, for example, Poland or other countries will demand the same and this will be a first step in the melting down on the whole union".

BBC: Germans united in regret over Britain's EU stance

In other words, a pretty serious failure had occurred in the infrastructure on which the whole Blackberry ecosystem depends.

BBC: Blackberry's message goes missing