These textbooks are, on the whole, small, presumably inexpensive to produce, but well set out and logically developed.(总体来说，这些教科书很小，成本应该也不高，但是内容陈述恰当，具有逻辑性。)
When one student behaves disgracefully, it reflects badly on the whole class, even the whole school.(一个学生的不光彩行为会给整个班级、甚至整个学校带来很坏的影响。)
She was easy-going on the whole.(总的来说，她还是很随和的。)
The two presidents agree with each other on the whole, but much remains to be discussed at the following meeting.(两位总统大体上是持相同观点的，但是有些观点在之后的会议中仍有待讨论。)
Our opinions are on the whole the same.(我们的意见基本上是一样的。)
On the whole the celebrations were remarkably good-humored and peaceful. It seemed almost too good to be true.(大体上说，庆祝活动非常快乐祥和，似乎好得令人难以置信。)
It turns out that what would later have a notable influence on European music on the whole, was the way Bartók used elements he heard in folk songs in his own compositions.(我们发现，后来对整个欧洲音乐产生显著影响的，是巴托克在自己的作品中使用他从民歌中听到的元素的方式。)
On the whole she had lived modestly, with a notable lack of ostentation.(总体来说，她生活俭朴，不事张扬。)
On the whole, however, even these laudatory critics showed themselves uninterested in the stories that this fiction told, or in their significance.(然而，总的来说，即使是这些表示赞美的评论家，也对小说所讲的故事和小说的意义不感兴趣。)
