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单词 be-all
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be-alln.

/ˈbiːɔːl/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: be v., all pron. and n.
Etymology: < be v. + all pron. and n.
That which is or constitutes the whole; the whole being: a Shakespearean phrase in common modern use.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 5 That but this blow Might be the be all, and the end all. View more context for this quotation
1830 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Jan. 166 This is the end-all and be-all of the anti-liberals' piety.
1854 E. Neale Min. Canon ii. 30 With whom money was the ‘be-all and end-all of existence.’
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