total utility

基本解释

It is the rate of change in total utility per unit change in quantity and is not the utility of a marginal unit.
它是（商品）量的每单位变动带来的总效用变动率，而不是边际单位的效用。
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Marginal utility, defined as "the rate of change of total utility", is the utility of the last orange plus the change in utility of the preceding oranges when one more is added.
而定义为“总效用变动率”的边际效用，是指当增加一个橙子时，最后一个橙子的效用加上原有橙子效用变动之和。
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Using analytic hierarchy process(AHP) to ascertain the weighing of every index and to ascertain the value of every index by constructing utility function, the total utility value of highway constr.
采用层次分析法确定各评价指标的权重，通过建立效用函数确定各评价指标的效用值，最后通过总效用函数模型求得公路建设项目总效用值。

At some point more money held will add less to total utility than alternative uses for it—i.e. lending or investing.
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If we hold additional cash or banks hold additional cash reserves, total utility will rise, but marginal utility will likely fall.
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Just as diminishing marginal utility means more of something adds less and less to total utility (bank reserves), it also means that less of something (bologna) will raise its utility at the margin.
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