make all the difference

短语

关系重大,有天壤之别

发音

AU

词形变化

made all the difference makes all the difference 三单 makes all the difference making all the difference making all the difference 现在分词 made all the difference 过去式 made all the difference 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To be a crucial or deciding factor; to have a very significant effect (often a positive one).

    习语

    1734, Alexander Forbes, Essays Moral and Philosophical, London: J. Osborn & T. Longman, Part I, Chapter 12, p. 100, To assert the Superiority of the Human Spirit […] above that of other Animals upon this earth, has been the endeavour of many Persons, who […] have made their System more coherent than those who have endeavour’d to put Men and Beasts upon a level. Some of this last Party indeed acknowledge the advantage that Mankind have from the Frame of the Body and its Organs, which they pretend makes all the difference.