above all 尤其是, 首先
- Children should learn above all how to observe good manners at table.
小孩首先应学会餐桌礼仪。 - He was above all a good and tireless writer.
他首先是位优秀的、不知疲倦的作家。 - What a child should do, above all, is to do well in his studies.
小孩子该做的最重要的事是学好功课。
above all[ adv ]- above and beyond all other consideration
<adv.all>
above all, you must be independent
- taking everything together
<adv.all>
she was first and last a scientist
Above \A*bove"\, prep. [OE. above, aboven, abuffe, AS. abufon;
an (or on) on + be by + ufan upward; cf. Goth. uf under.
[root]199. See {Over}.]
1. In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper
surface; over; -- opposed to {below} or {beneath}.
Fowl that may fly above the earth. --Gen. i. 20.
2. Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect;
surpassing; beyond; higher in measure or degree than; as,
things above comprehension; above mean actions; conduct
above reproach. ``Thy worth . . . is actions above my
gifts.'' --Marlowe.
I saw in the way a light from heaven above the
brightness of the sun. --Acts xxxvi.
13.
3. Surpassing in number or quantity; more than; as, above a
hundred. (Passing into the adverbial sense. See {Above},
adv., 4.)
{above all}, before every other consideration; chiefly; in
preference to other things.
{Over and above}, prep. or adv., besides; in addition to.