a)EVERYWHEREeverywhere on an object or surface 遍布某物[表面]x
There were bits of paper all over the floor.
地板上到处都是碎纸屑。
He has cuts all over his legs.
他的双腿到处是伤口。
She ached all over (=her whole body ached).
她浑身疼。
b)EVERYWHEREeverywhere in a place 处处,到处
Antique clocks from all over the world are on display.
正在展出的有来自世界各地的古玩钟。
People came from all over the country.
全国各地的人都来了。
They’re putting up new offices all over the place.
他们到处设立新的办事处。
Examples from the Corpus
all over (something)• Be either late or absent and the thirty-day clock begins all over again.• Since the shop opened in 1989, it has received over 200,000 visitors from all over Britain and overseas.• There was a sound of stirall over the house, pattering of feet in the corridors.• By this time there were medical people all over the place, many of them without a purpose, it seemed.• He can lick himself all over too, but we won't go there.• The works themselves were submitted by teachersall overtown, and include two-and three-dimensional pieces.• Then it was all over, when Smith was bowled over by Cork.• Excuse me, they might say, you have death all over your face, it could be serious.
2informal to be trying to kiss someone and touch them, especially in a sexual way 对某人动手动脚
Before I could speak, he was all over me.
我还没来得及开口,他就上来对我动手动脚。
Examples from the Corpus
be all over somebody• After verse 2 even the city itself remains nameless until verse 25, by which time it is all over.• But then I also say I wish it was all over.• By this time, it was all over.• It was all over and she was glad.• I was glad it was all over for him - and, it must be admitted, for me too.• Battler opened up with the violin and it was all over in a few minutes.• He was all over me at the dance.• Hopefully, it was all over now and he'd be able to take a spot of leave.• Domesticviolence, they say, is all overtown, in all types of neighborhoods.