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单词 all at once
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all at once
a. all at once.
(a) With everything happening in one go or simultaneously; at one and the same time; all together.
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?1499 J. Skelton Bowge of Courte (de Worde) sig. Bvv Thenne I astonyed of that sodeyne fraye Sterte all at ones.
1531 G. Joye tr. Prophete Isaye xxvii. sig. G.ij Who then maye so move me to be so grete an enymye to hyr that..I wolde set hyr a fyer all at once with thornes & bryers?
1582 in Bible (Rheims) 1 Cor. xiv. 23 (note) Singing Psalmes,..one in this language, and another in that, all at once like a blacke saunts, and one often not vnderstood of another.
1588 W. Kempe Educ. Children sig. F2v A sillable of eight letters, being too hard for a childe to learne all at once, he may learne letter by letter.
a1617 P. Baynes Comm. Ephes. (1643) i. 334 Not all at once, but by ounces, as we say.
1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §82. 109 She..popt it into her mouth, and swallowed it all at once.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Orgues Several Musket-Barrels set in a row within one wooden Stock, to be discharged either all at once, or separately.
1759 S. Johnson Idler 21 Apr. 121 She must not rid herself of them all at once.
1827 J. Farey Treat. Steam Engine v. 358 By releasing the catches..the expansion-valve b, the exhausting-valve i, and injection-valve j, are opened all at once.
1894 A. B. Gomme Trad. Games I. 66 You throw down the cubes all at once, then toss the ball.
1930 Lancet 27 Sept. 686/2 The recently prepared solution is warmed to body heat and may be quite safely injected all at once provided it is injected slowly.
1995 Daily Mirror 23 Feb. 6/4 Transfer of other powers to the new Assembly likely to be phased in rather than introduced all at once.
(b) Suddenly; all of a sudden.
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1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. vi. 77 He assumed the start of a man who all at once hits upon a circumstance which had hitherto escaped his recollection.
1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. iii. 108 All at once the hurricano ceased.
1883 Harper's Mag. June 131/2 All at once something seemed to sift away from before my eyes.
1906 U. Sinclair Jungle vii. 91 At last he fell to pieces, all at once and in a heap.
1945 I. Gershwin All At Once (song) in Compl. Lyrics (1993) 317/1 All at once, My lucky star was flowing; All at once, I knew I'd met my Once-for-All.
2000 M. Kneale Eng. Passengers (2001) v. 125 All at once the captain strode back on to the platform looking fierce.
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