anything是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为pron. 任何东西(事物) ； 无论什么东西(事物)，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What's the use of asking that, when you know we shall wear our poplins, because we haven't got anything else?'
-- 'Gloves are more important than anything else.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks anything the less of me, because I promptly and respectfully obey that old hunks in that particular instance?
-- I felt worse and worse at last I got up, dressed, and softly going down in my stockinged feet, sought out my stepmother, and suddenly threw myself at her feet, beseeching her as a particular favour to give me a good slippering for my misbehaviour; anything indeed but condemning me to lie abed such an unendurable length of time.
-- And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.
-- But that was certainly very coolly done by him, and every one knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.
-- So full of this reeling scene were we, as we stood by the plunging bowsprit, that for some time we did not notice the jeering glances of the passengers, a lubber-like assembly, who marvelled that two fellow beings should be so companionable; as though a white man were anything more dignified than a whitewashed negro.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Occasionally, when there was some more than usually interesting inquest upon a parish child who had been overlooked in turning up a bedstead, or inadvertently scalded to death when there happened to be a washing--though the latter accident was very scarce, anything approaching to a washing being of rare occurrence in the farm--the jury would take it into their heads to ask troublesome questions, or the parishioners would rebelliously affix their signatures to a remonstrance.
-- 'I never was more convinced of anything in my life,' said the gentleman in the white waistcoat, as he knocked at the gate and read the bill next morning: 'I never was more convinced of anything in my life, than I am that that boy will come to be hung.'
-- 'We only heard of the family the night before last,' said the beadle; 'and we shouldn't have known anything about them, then, only a woman who lodges in the same house made an application to the porochial committee for them to send the porochial surgeon to see a woman as was very bad.
-- Anything you like!'
-- 'She's dead,' replied Oliver; 'don't you say anything about her to me!'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I certainly HAVE had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordi-nary now.
-- She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in anything ridiculous.
-- I never in my life saw anything more elegant than their dresses.
-- She is a great reader, and has no pleasure in anything else.'
-- The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any atten-tion to the imperfection of the performance.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, I did not act quite so hastily as the first heat of my resolution prompted; but I took my mother at a time when I thought her a little more pleasant than ordinary, and told her that my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to anything with resolution enough to go through with it, and my father had better give me his consent than force me to go without it; that I was now eighteen years old, which was too late to go apprentice to a trade or clerk to an attorney; that I was sure if I did I should never serve out my time, but I should certainly run away from my master before my time was out, and go to sea; and if she would speak to my father to let me go one voyage abroad, if I came home again, and did not like it, I would go no more; and I would promise, by a double diligence, to recover the time that I had lost.
-- This put my mother into a great passion; she told me she knew it would be to no purpose to speak to my father upon any such subject; that he knew too well what was my inter-est to give his consent to anything so much for my hurt; and that she wondered how I could think of any such thing after the discourse I had had with my father, and such kind and tender expressions as she knew my father had used to me; and that, in short, if I would ruin myself, there was no help for me; but I might depend I should never have their con-sent to it; that for her part she would not have so much hand in my destruction; and I should never have it to say that my mother was willing when my father was not.
-- All this while the storm increased, and the sea went very high, though nothing like what I have seen many times since; no, nor what I saw a few days after; but it was enough to affect me then, who was but a young sailor, and had nev-er known anything of the matter.
-- This captain taking a fancy to my conversation, which was not at all disagreeable at that time, hearing me say I had a mind to see the world, told me if I would go the voyage with him I should be at no expense; I should be his messmate and his companion; and if I could carry anything with me, I should have all the advantage of it that the trade would ad-mit; and perhaps I might meet with some encouragement.
-- As he was charitable in this proposal, so he was just in the performance to a tittle; for he ordered the seamen that none should touch anything that I had: then he took every-thing into his own possession, and gave me back an exact inventory of them, that I might have them, even to my three earthen jars.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh!beyond anything great!What brother on earth would do half so much for his sisters, even if REALLY his sisters!And as it is only half blood! But you have such a generous spirit!"
-- "It would be impossible, I know," replied Elinor, "to convince you that a woman of seven and twenty could feel for a man of thirty-five anything near enough to love, to make him a desirable companion to her.
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