| 词组 | all the |
| 释义 | all the 1. All the plus a comparative adverb (or sometimes adjective) is an English idiom that occurs in standard written English; in it all the functions as a simple intensifier: • ... the omission found by me was an all the deadlier record of poor Soames' failure to impress himself on his decade —Max Beerbohm, Seven Men, 1920 • ... hating their clean white shiny faces and loving the Johnsons all the more —Morley Callaghan, The Loved and the Lost, 1951 • They will like you all the better for not filling their minds with any nonsense about jurisprudence — Robert M. Hutchins, Center Mag., January 1969 • ... from Soviet sources and therefore all the more revealing —Geographical Jour. June 1954 • ... and when this is the case the humanist is all the farther from revealing the relevance of the humanities to the contemporary concerns of most living men —American Council of Learned Societies, Agenda, 27-28 Oct. 1950 2. All the plus an adjective or adverb in the positive or comparative degree replaces the written as ... as construction in speech in many areas of the United States. Surveys made for the Dictionary of American Regional English found the construction in 40 of the 50 states, but it is especially common in Southern and South Midland speech with a positive adjective and in inland Northern and North Midland speech with a comparative adjective. Informants on all educational levels use the construction. For example, • That's all the fast this horse can run. (DARE) is the spoken equivalent of the written • That's as fast as this horse can run. Or • That is all the tighter I can tie it. (American Speech, December 1953) is the spoken equivalent of • That's as tight as I can tie it. If the handbooks are to be trusted, all the farther (or further) for the written as far as is particularly common. We have no evidence of the expression in written English, except in reports of speech. The as ... as construction prevails in written English. |
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