| 词组 | all everybody everyone and everything |
| 释义 | Contents overview all , everybody / everyone and everything149 all, everybody/everyone and everything1all and everybody/everyoneWe do not normally use all without a noun phrase to mean 'everybody'. Compare:All the people stood up.Everybody/Everyone stood up. (not All stood up.)2all and everythingAll (without a noun phrase) can mean 'everything', but usually only in the structure all + relative clause (all that …). Compare:–All (that) I have is yours. (not All what I have …)Everything is yours. (not All is yours.)–She lost all (that) she owned.She lost everything. (not She lost all.)This structure often has a rather negative meaning, expressing ideas like 'nothing more' or 'the only thing(s)'.This is all I've got.All I want is a place to sit down.All that happened was that he went to sleep.Note also That's all (= It's finished; There's no more).3older EnglishIn older English, all could be used alone to mean 'everybody' or 'everything' (e.g. Tell me all; All is lost; All are dead). This only happens regularly in modern English in dramatic contexts like newspaper headlines (e.g. SPY TELLS ALL).Previous Next |
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