| 词组 | all-time |
| 释义 | all-time Copperud 1970, 1980 and Kilpatrick 1984 object to all-time record as redundant; Bernstein 1971 defends all-time high (aspersed by an editor of his acquaintance) as well as other uses of all-time in contexts where it is not superfluous. In these days of rampant record-keeping, all-time is not necessarily out of place as an intensifier. Records are reported by the day, month, quarter, year, decade, and many other units of time. Modification of record is often essential for clarity. All-time has been used with record since the 1930s: • Gehrig ties all-time record with four straight home runs —N. Y. Times, 4 June 1932 • ... 1936 was an all-time record year for the commercial producers —Harper's, February 1938 • ... flew from England to South Africa in 45 hours, an all-time record —Time, 4 Apr. 1938 It is still in use: • ... who has set an all-time major-league record for saves during the season —Roger Angell, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 1972 • ... must set an all-time record for boredom in televised sports —Jonathan Evan Maslow, Saturday Rev., 10 Dec. 1977 Most of the use of all-time is taken up in modifying a relatively few nouns. Among the most common are high, low (more common with all-time than record is), and great. • Betting also hit an all-time high —Audax Minor, New Yorker, 12 May 1973 • ... the power of traditionally shocking words to shock is at an all-time low —Thomas H. Middleton, Saturday Rev., 11 Dec. 1976 • ... Dame Alicia Marko va, an all-time ballet great — Walter Terry, Saturday Rev., 12 Feb. 1972 Time has been writing all-time as one word without a hyphen since the 1940s, but most publications use the hyphenated form. |
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