1.(用于否定句)任何事物,什么事情
You useanything in statements with negative meaning to indicate in a general way that nothing is present or that an action or event does not or cannot happen.
e.g. We can't doanything...
我们什么都做不了。
e.g. Dad sat, not sayinganything...
爸爸坐着,一声不吭。
2.(用于疑问句或条件从句)任何事物,任何事情
You useanything in questions and conditional clauses to ask or talk about whether something is present or happening.
e.g. What happened, isanything wrong?...
怎么了,出什么事了吗?
e.g. Did you findanything?...
你找到什么了吗?
3.(用于描述所谈论事物的词语前)…的东西,…的事情
You can useanything before words which indicate the kind of thing you are talking about.
e.g. More thananything else, he wanted to become a teacher...
他最想成为一名教师。
e.g. anything that's cheap this year will be even cheaper next year...
今年的便宜货明年会更便宜。
4.(用于加强语气)无论什么东西,随便什么事情
You useanything to emphasize a possible thing, event, or situation, when you are saying that it could be any one of a very large number of things.
anything的近义词
e.g. He is young, fresh, and ready foranything...
他年轻又富有朝气,什么事都愿意做。
e.g. At that point,anything could happen...
那一刻,什么事都可能发生。
5.(用于强调)多少接近于
You useanything in expressions such asanything near ,anything close to andanything like to emphasize a statement that you are making.
e.g. Doctors have decided the only way he can liveanything near a normal life is to give him an operation...
医生的结论是只有做手术,他才有可能过上基本正常的生活。
e.g. Only Cowans playedanything close to his true form...
只有考恩斯算是发挥出了正常水平。
6.(限定范围内的)任何一点
When you do not want to be exact, you useanything to talk about a particular range of things or quantities.
e.g. Factory farming has turned the cow into a milk machine, producinganything from 25 to 40 litres of milk per day...
集约饲养把奶牛变成了生产牛奶的机器,每天差不多要挤出25升到40升的牛奶。
e.g. Fights with his father lastedanything between fifteen minutes and an hour.
和他父亲争吵了大约15分钟到一个小时。
anything is mainly used in questions and negative sentences. You use
not anything instead of
something in negative sentences.
There isn't anything here.anything主要用于疑问句和否定句。否定句中用not
anything代替something,如:There isn't
anything here(这儿什么也没有)。
7.(用于形容词后表示强调)非常,十分
You useas anything after an adjective to emphasize a quality that someone has.
e.g. He used to be as smart asanything...
他过去聪明绝顶。
e.g. She opened the door and jumped out, quick asanything.
她打开门,飞快地跳了出来。
8.单单除…之外;根本不;远非
You useanything but in expressions such asanything but quiet andanything but attractive to emphasize that something is not the case.
e.g. I will beanything but quiet on Saturday night!...
星期六的晚上我根本静不下心来!
e.g. There's no evidence that he told anyone to sayanything but the truth...
并无证据表明他让什么人隐瞒真相。
9.决不
You can say that youwould not do somethingfor anything to emphasize that you definitely would not want to do or be a particular thing.
e.g. I wouldn't want to move foranything in the world...
就是天塌了我也不搬走。
e.g. I wouldn't have missed this summer in England foranything...
我本来说什么也不会错过在英格兰的这个夏季的。
10.(尤用于否定句后,对所说之事进行补充说明)甚至正相反,甚至还不如说
You useif anything, especially after a negative statement, to introduce a statement that adds to what you have just said.
e.g. I never had to clean up after him. Ifanything, he did most of the cleaning.
我从来不用跟在他后面打扫卫生。恰恰相反,他包揽了大部分的清洁工作。
11.或其他什么的;诸如此类
You can addor anything to the end of a clause or sentence in order to refer vaguely to other things that are or may be similar to what has just been mentioned.
e.g. Listen, if you talk to him oranything make sure you let us know, will you...
听着,如果你和他说话或什么的,一定要让我们知道,好吗?
e.g. He didn't cry or scream oranything.
他没哭也没喊,什么事也没有。