One way to picture all-American is something picked out of the whole of America and then held up as the one that stands for it. The all- is doing real work here: not this school, not this state, but every part of the country counted together. A player chosen as all-American was chosen out of the whole United States; a face called all-American looks like the America people already carry in their heads.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary records all-American as all- + American, an Americanism first written down in the 1880s, and says the noun use began as a short way of saying all-American athlete, player or team, and was only later carried over to people and things in general (All-American boy, girl, family). So the sports sense is the older one, and the 'typically American' sense is the transferred use.
Wiktionary 記的是 all- + American 這個組合，1880 年代第一次被寫下來的美式用法；它說名詞用法一開始是 all-American athlete / player / team 的簡說，後來才被轉用到一般的人和東西上（All-American boy, girl, family）。所以運動選拔那個意思是較早的，「典型美國的」是轉出來的用法。
Wiktionary, 'all-american' (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/all-american): "From all- + American. Americanism first recorded in the 1880s; the substantive usage originating early on as an ellipsis of all-American athlete, player, team; thereafter transferred"
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原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
All-Americanadj
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hobbieslifestylesportsOf a person or a team, or some other thing: regarded as the best in the United States; of a team, composed entirely of members who are each the best from their state, league, or region.
- He was an All-American basketball player last year.
- After having conducted a country-wide poll of experts, Vanity Fair has chosen a truly All-American Collegiate Basketball Team. The nine picked is the result of the combined opinions of sporting editors, college coaches, graduate managers and old players from Cambridge, to Palo Alto and from Minneapolis to Atlanta.
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governmentmilitarypoliticsOf a regiment or division: composed of members from every state in the Union.
All-Americannoun
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hobbieslifestylesportsA person or a team, or some other thing, regarded as the best in the United States; a team composed entirely of members who are each the best from their state, league, or region.
- [Bennie] Oosterbaan won letters in football, basketball, and baseball, and was selected as an All-American end for three successive years.
- Among the players he [Ward Lambert] coached were the legendary John Wooden, a three-time All-American; three-time All-American Charles "Stretch" Murphy; and All-Americans Don White, Ray "Candy" Miller, George Spradling, Norm Cotton, Emmett Lowery, Robert Kessler, Jewell Young, and Paul Hoffman.
all-Americanadj/ˌɔːl əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/
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Comprising things that are wholly from the United States of America; completely made in the United States.
- "All-American" Transformers. Perfected first, from the stand-point of correct engineering, by proper turns radio, impedance and shielding—then, in our latest models, given the finishing touches of outward beauty that the more critical eye demanded. […] Your dealer has "All-American" Transformers.
- The DC-10 with a GE engine would be wrongfully touted as an all-American airplane. The GE engine was part French. The DC-10 had Italian fuselage sections. There was little awareness of the subcontracts with offshore suppliers.
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Regarded as embodying the ideal qualities of the United States; typically American; (specifically) of a person: courageous, heroic; honest, wholesome, etc.
- The [Davy] Crockett revival of the 1950's engineered by Walt Disney presented an all-American boy scout type as a mass-culture hero.
- Amelia [Earhart] looked the part of an all-American girl—pretty, confident yet slightly demure, exhibiting not a trace of brashness.
all-Americannoun/ˌɔːl əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/
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A person or thing regarded as embodying the ideal qualities of the United States of America; typically American; (specifically) a person from the United States who is courageous, heroic, honest, wholesome, etc.
- He was regarded by the other soldiers as an all-American for his courage in battle.
- When asked whether Gap, Inc. would still gain acceptance as an "all-American" if its brand manufacturing process was switched significantly abroad, given its customer loyalty and the reputation that it has already established, respondents said the brand would probably no longer be seen as all-American, which would be detrimental to the brand since it still has a stronger presence in the American market than its overseas market.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。