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You use all-time when you compare something with the whole of history, not just this year or this season. An all-time high is the highest it has ever been; an all-time low is the worst or smallest ever; your all-time favourite is the one you still put first after everything you have seen.
You use all-time when you compare something with the whole of history當你要比較的是整個歷史的時候就會用all-time not just this year or this season而不只是今年或這一季 An all-time high is the highest it has ever beenAn all-time high是有史以來最高的 an all-time low is the worst or smallest everan all-time low是有史以來最差或最少的 your all-time favourite is the one you still put first after everything you have seenyour all-time favourite是你看過那麼多東西之後還是排第一名的那個
It almost always sits before a word like high, low, best, greatest, record, or favourite. It is common in sport, pop music, and news about prices. Informal enough for chat, clear enough for headlines.
It almost always sits before a word like high, low, best, greatest, record, or favourite它幾乎都放在high、low、best、greatest、record或favourite這類字前面 It is common in sport, pop music, and news about prices在體育、流行音樂,還有關於價格的新聞裡都很常見 Informal enough for chat, clear enough for headlines輕鬆到可以聊天用,又清楚到可以當標題用
Though actually, the is doing real work: it glues “in the whole of time” onto the next word. Without the , all time is not this meaning.
Though actually, the hyphen is doing real work不過這個連字號真的有在做事 it glues "in the whole of time" onto the next word它把「整個時間範圍裡」這個意思黏到後面那個字上 Without the hyphen, all time is not this meaning沒有連字號的話all time就不是這個意思了
組成all + time, in the sense “the whole of time / history,” not “o’clock.”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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-timeadj
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Of all time; unsurpassed up to the present time.
- Sales have reached an all-time low, so the business may have to declare bankruptcy.
- And the Premier League's all-time top-goalscoring midfielder proved he has not lost the knack of being in the right place at the right time with a trio of clinical finishes.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。