2023年1月9日 星期一

all-important, all-clear, switch up, all-touch, all-around, all-in-one, all-nature


A woman’s hand feeds a folder labeled 2022 into a paper shredder.

Yes, your job is important. But it’s not all-important.

So far 14 people have been tested in the UK, nine are awaiting results and five have received the all-clear.




For government, efficiency must be subsumed to equity.

對政府而言,效率必須被包含在公平這一原則之中。

Uchimura Rises Above the Rest, Again
New York Times
LONDON — Kohei Uchimura, the Japanese gymnast, did not fool anyone by qualifying in ninth place last week for the Olympic men's all-around event in gymnastics. His competitors knew all along that he would be the one to beat in the final Wednesday, and ...
Kohei Uchimura of Japan overcame severe shoulder pain to retain his all-around title Friday at the world gymnastics championships in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and the 16-year-old Aliya Mustafina of Russia won the women’s event for her second gold medal.
Uchimura won gave a command performance with six consistently good scores to win the title with 92.331 points, for a huge 2.283 margin over Philipp Boy of Germany. Jonathan Horton of the United States won the bronze, 2.467 behind.

Urban Dictionary: switch up

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=switch%20up

Top Definition. Switch Up. To change state of mind or leave, usually when one is hostile. You betterswitch up real quick before I give you a can of whoop ass.

command performance
((通例単数形))天覧興行, 御前演奏[演技].

An occasion that one is obliged to attend, as in My boss's invitations to dinner are always a command performance. This term originally (late 1800s) denoted a theatrical or musical performance presented at the behest of a sovereign or head of state. By the 1930s it was also used figuratively for any more or less obligatory occasion or performance.


all-around/all-round 多才多藝
She's a fantastic all-round/AM ALSO all-around sportswoman (=one with many different skills). [before n]
Like Jeter, Lemming is half white and half black, an all-star and an all-around
good citizen. (Nitpickers will note that Jeter plays shortstop and Lemming plays center field, and that Jeter is right-handed and Lemming, or at least Mr. Sunjata, is left-handed.)
She is a good all-round player, but she excels in tennis.她各種運動都行,尤其擅長打網球
"The pernicious thing is the way the Hollywood culture subsumes you and makes you part of the system, and you don't even realize that you're being softer all-round."


subsume

音節
sub • sume
発音
səbsúːm | -sjúːm
subsumeの変化形
subsuming (現在分詞) • subsumes (三人称単数現在)
[動](他)((形式))…を(原則に)包括[包含]する((under ...)).
sub・súm・a・ble
[形]
all-clear 都清楚了
The probe gets all-clear.
He gave/sounded/heard the all-clear (=the signal that the danger was past).

He gave/sounded/heard the all-clear (=the signal that the danger was past).

all-day
For me, the prospect of all-day battery life and that excellent keyboard seal the deal in favor of the ThinkPad X30. But if your priorities are a bit different, particularly if you feel the need for a built-in optical drive, the Actius MV10W is a worthy machine.
We got Tyler one of those all-day (=very big) suckers, but she dropped it in the sand. sucker (SWEET)American and Australian informal for lollipop

all-girl
Diana Ross shot to fame as the leader of the all-girl group The Supremes in the 60s.


all-important
/ˌɔːlɪmˈpɔːtnt/
adjective
  1. vitally important; crucial.
    "the town's all-important tourist industry"


all-important
Microsoft shuffled some top executives in its all-important Windows division, following the launch of Windows XP.
As China's Communist Party prepares for its all-important 16th Congress in November, Ding Guangen, head of the party's propaganda department, has a thankless task: making sure China's increasingly freewheeling state news media are docile and on message.
Of the U.S. computer-hardware makers that have announced third-quarter earnings, the results are mixed at best. Significantly, the majority of computer companies are projecting only muted growth from the third to the all-important fourth quarter, which typically benefits from the holiday-shopping season and from the so-called corporate budget flush -- spending by businesses to deplete their remaining information-technology budgets for the year. The idea is: Use it or lose it.

All-in wrestling is a type of sport in which you fight without limits on your methods.


all-in-one
adjective [not gradable]
doing the work of two or more usually separate parts
BRITISH an all-in-one baby suit/leotard
The new office machine is capable of acting as an all-in-one printer, document scanner, copier and fax machine.
all-in-one
noun [C]
BRITISH
An all-in-one is a piece of clothing that covers the whole body rather than being divided into a separate top and bottom part.
She wore a pink lycra all-in-one for her aerobics class.
All-in-one
"Our research said the sleek, all-in-one design was a key factor to communicate," says Brad Shaw, Gateway's senior vice president of marketing. "By comparing with the iMac, we don't have to say it's all in one. We move right to features and value."
In the old days, there were shops of all kinds -- bakeries, shoe stores, pharmacies, and the like. Then came Wal-Mart. And the fear that the giant all-in-one store would come to small towns and squash mom-and-pop operations turned out to be real. American consumers find the Bentonville, (Ark.)-based discounter, which topped $226 billion in revenues in 2001, irresistible for its convenience, selection, and low prices. As local stores have continued to close, Wal-Mart has grown to 2,780 outlets in the U.S. alone. And that breakneck expansion shows little sign of slowing, despite the rough economy.
all-nature 純天然
Coca-Cola Co., in its latest move to expand its beverage portfolio beyond carbonated soft drinks, is in talks to acquire Odwalla Inc., a producer of premium refrigerated juices and other all-natural beverage and food products whose products are sold in more than 800 retail stores, The Wall Street Journal reported.



 There is a new smartphone coming to market, running on a new operating system. It's an all-touch device—with no physical navigation controls and no physical keyboard—and serves as a platform for third-party apps.





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