entire

将“entire”分解为“en”和“tire”，想象整个轮胎（tire）被充满（en），如同轮胎覆盖整个轮子一样，代表“整个”或“全部”的意思。

entire 整个的

来自拉丁文integrum, 整体。来自in-, 不，非，-teg, 接触，词源同contagious, integrate. 即没有接触过的，完整的。

entire

entire: [14] Entire and integrity [15] have the same source – Latin integer. This meant ‘whole, complete’, and was formed from the prefix in- ‘in’ and *tag-, the base which produced Latin tangere ‘touch’, source of English tactile and tangible (and indeed of intact [15], a parallel formation to entire and integrity).

English borrowed integer [16] itself as a mathematical term denoting a ‘whole’ number, and several of its Latin derivatives – not just integrity but also integral [16], from late Latin integrālis, and integrate [17], from Latin integrāre ‘make whole’. As its difference in form suggests, however, entire came via a different route.

The Latin accusative form integrum produced Vulgar Latin *integro, which passed into Old French as entier – hence English entire.
=> intact, integrity, tactile, tangible

entire (adj.)

late 14c., from Old French entier "whole, unbroken, intact, complete," from Latin integrum "completeness" (nominative integer; see integer). Related: Entireness.

1. If the Commission has its way, the entire deal will be scuppered.

如果委员会我行我素的话，整个交易将化为泡影。

2. In his long career at BP, Horton turned around two entire divisions.

霍顿在英国石油公司漫长的职业生涯中曾经让两个部门整体上起死回生。

3. They feared that totalitarians might yet conquer the entire world.

他们担心极权主义者会征服整个世界。

4. Soon the entire armed forces were in open revolt.

很快，整个武装部队开始公然抗命。

5. An entire poor section of town was bombed into oblivion.

城市的一整片贫民区被炸为了平地。

【total, entire, gross, full, complete, whole, all】
这组词都有“完整的，全部的，整个的”的意思，其区别是：
total: 与complete用法相近，但强调总量。
entire: 除了有whole的意思外，还强调既不能加一个也不减少一个的含义。
gross: 侧重指未打折扣，未除去成本或皮重等与净重、净数相对。
full: 侧重指内容，含有能包括所有的充足内容的意味。
complete: 强调事物在内容、程度、或数量方面已完整，已达标准。
whole: 比entire更普通，强调每个组成部分都包括在内，无一漏掉或舍去。
all: 有时可与whole, entire和total换用。