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A1 CET-4 Oxf 3000 初中 FREQ #214 ★★★★★

a. 每一, 所有的

发音

CA /ˈɛv.(ə.)ɹi/
US /ˈɛv.(ə.)ɹi/
UK /ˈɛv.(ə.)ɹi/
AU /ˈev.(ə.)ɹi/
NZ /ˈev.(ə.)ɹi/

别名

ebery euerie eurie everie ev'ry hevery ivery euery e'ry

教材释义与例句

His every utterance will be scrutinized.

他说的每句话都会被细查。

释义与例句

det. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception.

    每

    各

    逐

    Every person in the room stood and cheered.

    She watches my every move.

  2. 2.

    Denotes equal spacing at a stated interval, or a proportion corresponding to such a spacing.

    We stopped for refreshments every ten miles.

    The alarm is going off every few minutes.

    Every third bead was red, and the rest were blue. The sequence was thus red, blue, blue, red, blue, blue etc.

    Decimation originally meant the execution of every tenth soldier in a unit; that is, ten per cent of soldiers were killed.

  3. 3.

    Denotes an abundance of something.

    We wish you every happiness in the future.

    He shows every sign of becoming an excellent player. I have every confidence in him.

    There is every reason why we shouldn't.

    The police will make every effort to trace the missing girl.

相关短语

every so often 时常, 常常, 不时 every now and then 常常, 不时地 every now and again 有时, 时时, 偶尔 in every sense of the word 从任何意义上来说 each and every 每个 every other 每隔一, 所有其他的 every second 每两个,每隔一个 every dog has its day 臭头仔嘛会做皇帝，做总统你嘛有机会 every which way 四面八方, 非常混乱地 every man for himself 人各为己、各人自扫门前雪、人不为己，天诛地灭、天诛地灭

词源

Inherited from Middle English every, everich, eaver-euch, averiche, aver alche, ever ælche, from Old English ǣfre ǣlċ, ǣfre ǣġhwelċ (“each and every”). By surface analysis, ever + each or ever + which.

来源：wiktionary