英和和英

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副詞

all in all (not comparable)

1. (modal, set phrase) Generally, all things considered

   All in all, it's not a bad little restaurant.

   • 1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273:

     There are, of course, certain differences of detail; for example, the placing of the safety valves on the boiler barrel behind the dome, which follows the practice in the Riddles 2-8-0 and 2-10-0 locomotives for the Ministry of Supply; but taken all in all, Britannia's boiler has a closer affinity with the Doncaster designs than with any other.

   • 2025 November 12, 'Mystery Shopper', “Is Devon the cream of the crop?”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 48:

     All in all, an enjoyable day.

2. Altogether, in all, with everything included

   There were twenty absentees all in all.

3. (archaic) Altogether, wholly, in every way
   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 23:

     And I perceived no touch of change,
     ⁠No hint of death in all his frame,
     ⁠But found him all in all the same, […]

同意語

• (generally): for the most part, mostly, on the whole; see also Thesaurus:mostly

名詞

all in all (uncountable)

1. Everything that matters; the only thing of importance.
   • 1822, William Goode, Essays on all the scriptural names and titles of Christ, page 181:

     […] to realize, by constant faith, the all-sufficiency of his redeeming power and love — to make him all his salvation and all his desire, the Alpha and Omega of all his hope, his all in all.

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     You saw us all in happier days before he married me. I was all in all then to him; or would he have given up his fortune, his family, as he nobly did to make me happy?

   • 1828, Constantine Henry Phipps Marquess of Normanby, Yes and No: a Tale of the Day, page 12:

     Her mother had been all in all to her: she had never seemed to have any separate existence from that of her child.