anything
pron. 任何事
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教材释义与例句
任何事
any thing, event, situation etc, when it is not important to say exactly which
You can buy anything you want.
你想要什么都可以买。
He was prepared to do anything to make a bit of money.
只要能赚一点钱,他什么都愿意做。
Anything would be better than staying at home!
做什么都比待在家里好!
You can write about swimming, skiing, or anything else you enjoy doing.
你可以写游泳、写滑雪或者其他任何你喜欢的活动。
释义与例句
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Someone or something of importance.
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Used as a placeholder verb for any verb out of a set of related verbs.
及物/不及物 非正式He wasn't cooking, he wasn't sweeping, he wasn't anythinging!
–I don't want to accompany him! –You never want to anything him!
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In any way, any extent or any degree.
That isn't anything like a car.
She's not anything like as strong as me.
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Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatsoever; a thing of any kind; something or other.
什么
I would not do it for anything.
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Expressing an indefinite comparison.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Indo-European *h₁oy-no-kós Proto-Germanic *ainagaz Proto-West Germanic *ainag Old English ǣniġ Proto-Indo-European *tenk-? Proto-Indo-European *tenkóm Proto-Germanic *þingą Proto-West Germanic *þing Old English þing Old English aniþing Middle English anything English anything From Middle English anything, enything, onything, from Late Old English aniþing, from earlier ǣniġ þing (literally “any thing”), equivalent to any + thing.
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