any是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. (用于否定句、 疑问句等) 什么, 一些; 任何的,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If it were a pig now like that fat gentleman you are driving along at his ease one could do something with it; it would at any rate make sausages.'
-- Now this fairy could take any shape she pleased.
-- When any young man came within a hun-dred paces of her castle, he became quite fixed, and could not move a step till she came and set him free; which she would not do till he had given her his word never to come there again: but when any pretty maiden came within that space she was changed into a bird, and the fairy put her into a cage, and hung her up in a chamber in the castle.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There is an air of truth apparent through the whole; and indeed the author was so distinguished for his veracity, that it became a sort of proverb among his neighbours at Redriff, when any one af-firmed a thing, to say, it was as true as if Mr. Gulliver had spoken it.
-- And if any traveller hath a curiosity to see the whole work at large, as it came from the hands of the author, I will be ready to gratify him.
-- As for any further particulars relating to the author, the reader will receive satisfaction from the first pages of the book.
-- But I do not remember I gave you power to consent that any thing should be omitted, and much less that any thing should be inserted; therefore, as to the latter, I do here renounce ev-ery thing of that kind; particularly a paragraph about her majesty Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious memo-ry; although I did reverence and esteem her more than any of human species.
-- But you, or your interpolator, ought to have considered, that it was not my inclination, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my master Houyhnhnm: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty's reign, she did govern by a chief minis-ter; nay even by two successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them.
-- With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.
-- 'If you please, sir, when they can get any to break, they do break horses in the ring, sir.'
-- He would go in and damage any subject whatever with his right, follow up with his left, stop, exchange, counter, bore his opponent (he always fought All England) to the ropes, and fall upon him neatly.
-- You are not to have, in any object of use or ornament, what would be a contradiction in fact.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now to tell the truth, at that moment I was far more interested in the question as to what was to constitute our dinner than in any problem of science; to me soup was more interesting than soda, an omelette more tempting than arithmetic, and an artichoke of ten times more value than any amount of asbestos.
-- CHAPTER 2 THE MYSTERIOUS PARCHMENT [Illustration: Runic Glyphs] "I Declare," cried my uncle, striking the table fiercely with his fist, "I declare to you it is Runic--and contains some wonderful secret, which I must get at, at any pr ice."
-- "I declare it puts me in mind of a cryptograph," he cried, "unless, indeed, the letters have been written without any real meaning; and yet why take so much trouble?
-- When our cook wanted to go out to market, or on any other errand, she found the front door locked and the key taken away.
-- Besides, some means would surely be found to keep my uncle back from attempting any such absurd expedition.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Crippled for ever, know-ing he could never have any children, Clifford came home to the smoky Midlands to keep the Chatterley name alive while he could.
-- The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
-- They didn't exist any more.
-- He was only caught in the general, popular recoil of the young against convention and against any sort of real authority.
-- And as far as the governing class made any pretensions to govern, they were ridiculous too.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since.
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