Apart from the bus arriving late, everything else seemed to be going according to plan.
除了公共汽车晚点之外,其他一切似乎都在按计划进行。
2SITUATIONall the things in your life, work etc 一切〔指生活、工作等〕
Everything’s fine at the moment.
目前一切都好。
I felt that everything was going wrong.
我觉得一切都不顺利。
3be/mean everything (to somebody)IMPORTANTto be the most important thing in someone’s life(对某人来说)是/意味着一切
Money isn’t everything.
金钱不是一切。
His children mean everything to him.
孩子对他来说意味着一切。
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be/mean everything (to somebody)• On the other hand, a word can not mean everything and something at the same time.• Does that mean everythingdeserves a Nobel Prize?• Timing can be everything, even in rocketscience.• She needed to be everything she could be and London would provide for that.• Well, that seems to be everything so far as tomorrow is concerned.• It meant everything to her to be able to play her senior year.• Beckwith meant everything to him, she'd recognized that from the first.• Walt's family means everything to him.
4have everythingto have all the things that people want in their lives 拥有一切
What do you buy for the man who has everything?
对那个样样都有的人来说,你能买些什么呢?
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have everything• He wants his friends to have everything.• If he could have that, Kingsley believed, he could have everything.• Still, you can't have everything.• It seemed they could have everything merely because they were boys, they would not have to sacrifice anything for anything else.• I want to have everythingready in good time.• It is important to check this list ahead of time so that you have everything ready to complete the demonstration.• I have everything that others packed on to trains, starving in camps, tortured, gassed, bludgeoned and shot do not.• Insurershave everything to gain by supporting clinicaltrials.
5and everythingspokenALL/EVERYTHING and a lot of other similar things 以及其他,等等
Tina’s worried about her work and everything.
蒂娜担心她的工作以及其他事情。
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and everything• I was vulnerable to everyone and everything.• Forms and everything and she said yes.• He is also pledging his privatejetand everything else his family owns.• Forbes would keep it pure, getting rid of the home mortgage, medicalexpense and charitabledeductionsand everything else.• I walked out the doorand everything had different colors to it.• My hearing was gone momentarily, and everything seemed to be in slowmotion.• The movies had broken through to a vast new public and everything was on a different scale.
6have everything going for youADVANTAGEto have all the qualities that are likely to make you succeed 拥有一切有利条件
You shouldn’t worry so much – you’ve got everything going for you.
你不该这么担心,一切都对你有利。
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have everything going for you• Barry had everything going for him -- charm, looks, intelligence, but still he was unemployed.• Dan seemed to have everything going for him in college.• She was bright and pretty and had everything going for her.• It seems to have everything going for it.• The events have everything going for them.
7everything but the kitchen sinkinformalEQUIPMENT all the equipment that you need and also a lot of things that you do not need – used humorously 需要的一切物品和许多不需要的东西〔幽默用法〕
I think we’ve packed everything but the kitchen sink!
我想我们把有用的没用的都装上了!
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everything but the kitchen sink• Burglarsbroke in and took everything but the kitchen sink.• When my parents come to stay with us, they bringeverything but the kitchen sink!• Aunt Hortense: Babsy Hepworth's bronzes, everything but the kitchen sink.
5GRAMMAR 语法
Use a singular verb after everything.everything后用单数动词
Everything is ready.
一切就绪。
nGRAMMAR: Singular or plural verb?
You use a singular verb after everything: everything后用单数动词
Everything was the same.
✗Don’t say: Everything were the same.
Examples from the Corpus
everything• "How's everything at work?" "Very busy."• Maria has succeeded at almost everything she has tried to do.• Do you have everything you need?
everything else• Cons: Just about everything else.• I already think of nothing but him, but this will be different; this will surpasseverything else.• That leaves him £22.44 a fortnight for everything else.• With that mind-set, everything else becomes secondary to the ability to deliver the next quarterlyearningspush-up.• In another drawer, set aside from everything else, he found other letters that were full of love.• Her photoalbum was saved, but she lost everything else in the fire.• S blockedsteelimports, which drove up the cost of automobiles and everything else made from steel.• It's everything else that's trouble.• He wanted to see how we would react when everything else was going wrong.