| 单词 | all-purpose |
| 释义 | all-purpose adjective[before noun] uk/ɔːlˈpɜː.pəs/us/ɑːlˈpɝː.pəs/ableto be used in many differentwaysorsituations: 通用的，多用途的an all-purposehouseholdcleaner多功能家用清洁机 Synonym general-purpose General
Examplesofall-purposeall-purpose We have never quite settled on a name for this familiar keyboard manner of the time; 'galant' is far tooall-purpose. From theCambridge English Corpus But any general,all-purposetheory of toleration is unlikely to be forthcoming anytime soon. From theCambridge English Corpus In terms of, with terms generalized to create a vagueall-purposeconnective, is currently popular, and frequently criticized. From theCambridge English Corpus This fact means, however, that very few i-words are created as generic orall-purposelabels or descriptors, a difference from how e- is frequently used. From theCambridge English Corpus Nonetheless, the most adequateall-purposeassurance of lack of initial biases between groups is randomization. From theCambridge English Corpus On the rare occasions when that dubious virtue is called for, 'impartial' will do as anall-purposeword. From theCambridge English Corpus It is theall-purposeother of every aesthetic production that wants to be taken seriously. From theCambridge English Corpus Varieties that can be used for all three are considered to be 'all-purpose' and are highly valued by the growers for their versatility and marketability. From theCambridge English Corpus Besides approximation and code switching, substitution processes underlie a third problem-solving device as well-the use ofall-purpose-words. From theCambridge English Corpus This disassociation between the relative salience of objects and relations during mapping versus during retrieval cannot be accommodated with anall-purposesalience assignment. From theCambridge English Corpus The idea is that an older generation of speakers still uses the ancestral language as anall-purpose language, but also as an in-group secret language. From theCambridge English Corpus Any explanation of mechanisation must stress the importance of the introduction, in 1930, of the small combine-harvester operated by power take-off from anall-purposetractor. From theCambridge English Corpus The text of the offertory is anall-purposeone, suitable for almost any occasion. From theCambridge English Corpus Visually it was disappointing, with sets as hideous as the costumes, charmless polystyrene blocks serving asall-purposeprops for the huge but under-directed cast. From theCambridge English Corpus The music it now intones might be described as a kind ofall-purposeshout. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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