【问】[The clerks wake up，there is a furious clatter of drays，] and all in a twinkling the deadtown is alive and moving...

[原译]……一切在这一瞬之间使这死的村镇又活了……(《密士士必河上》)句中的all是指“一切”吗?

【答】 all在句中不是作主语，而是作为副词，跟in a twinkling构成一个意群，起强调语作用。类例：

1. Then all at once there was a crash of breaking glass.

接着突然传来一阵砸碎破璃的声音。

2. The window caved in all of a sudden.

窗户突然塌陷了。

3. They put flowers all around the statue.

他们在塑像周围全放上了鲜花。

4. All of a sudden，I felt free again. (“It suddenly happened.”) (CGEL)

突然，我又感到自由了。

[试译]……在这一瞬间，这个死一般沉寂的村镇又活了，又活动起来了。