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summa

/soom-uh, suhm-uh/US // ˈsʊm ə, ˈsʌm ə //UK // (ˈsʊmɑː) //

总结,总数,总和,总理

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural sum·mae [soom-ahy, suhm-ee], /ˈsʊm aɪ, ˈsʌm i/, sum·mas.

    • : a comprehensive work or series of works covering, synthesizing, or summarizing a particular field or subject.
    • : a work or series of works that is a summary of all human knowledge.

Examples

  • The Citi Bike system is thus a summa of all conservative fears.

  • Amanpour graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island with a B.A. in journalism.

  • Before meeting her husband, she reached an upper rung on Wall Street, after graduating summa cum laude from Georgetown.

  • But the compelling weight of her experience is revealed in her résumé: summa cum laude from Princeton, editor of Yale Law Review.

  • He took care to use the word “lynch” in his summa on behalf of Mr. Burris.

  • In the cavea media and the cavea summa the seats were of stone resting on the bank of earth.

  • I'm dummed if there ain't ol' Santa Claus a comin' t' th' Forks in th' summa time.

  • Philosophy is developed scientifically in his "Contra Gentes" and theology, scientifically in his great "Summa."

  • Summum jus, summa injuria—The Chief Justice—the greatest wrong!

  • Cardinal Cajetan, from whose famous Commentary on the Summa we have occasionally quoted, is unfortunately too little known.