| 词组 | all-around, all-round |
| 释义 | all-around, all-round Copperud 1970, 1980 cites a few commentators as worrying about which of these synonyms is more logical or otherwise preferable. What all the discussion omits is the only thing of real interest: all-around is American and has no British use; all-round has both British and American use. Here are a few examples of each: • ... unbeatable as all-around satisfying entertainment —Judith Crist, Saturday Rev., 17 Apr. 1976 • ... his exceptional all-around athletic performance —Current Biography, February 1966 • The new ideal is the all-around boy —Malcolm Cowley, New Republic, 22 Nov. 1954 • ... such a strange thing as an all-around left-handed man —Mark Twain, "How to Make Hist. Dates Stick," written 1899 (A Mark Twain Lexicon, 1938) • ... a fearless, self-confident swimmer, surfer, all-round athlete —Lyn Tornabene, Ladies' Home Jour., January 1971 • ... the all-round incompetence revealed by the Crimean War —Times Literary Supp., 16 July 1970 • ... but Antigua has an all-round climate —Alec Waugh, Love and the Caribbean, 1958 • ... one of the best all-round men in surgery —Dictionary of American Biography, 1929 |
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