ALL/EVERYTHINGused to say that all the parts of something are being considered together 整个来看〔用于表示所有部分都已考虑到〕
This project will be of great benefit to the region as a whole.
这个项目整体来看对该地区将大有好处。
Examples from the Corpus
as a whole• I hope that this allocationreflects the wishes of the House as a whole.• They interactas wholes, not as bits.• I do not see it like that, and I am sure that the nationas a whole would not either.• But the divide on issues between Bush and the people as a whole remains spectacular.• The U.S. population, as a whole, is very mobilecompared to other countries.• Capitalists were forced to concede the wage rises which for the system as a whole were needed to sustain accumulation.• We should also think about the problems of the world as a whole, which cause massmigration in the first place.