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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And it's the common way with horses, as any one can see."
-- Her visitor had had an accident, she said, which temporarily discoloured his face and hands, and being of a sensitive disposition, he was averse to any public notice of the fact.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The following narrative was found among his papers by the undersigned, his nephew and heir, but unaccompanied by any definite request for publication.
-- I say lucky for us he did not reach us, and I might almost say luckily for himself; for we had only a small breaker of water and some soddened ship's biscuits with us, so sudden had been the alarm, so unprepared the ship for any disas-ter.
-- You know the kind of man, calls the thing the 'Ipecacuanha,' of all silly, infer-nal names; though when there's much of a sea without any wind, she certainly acts according.'
-- I do not think I have ever heard quite so much vile language come in a continuous stream from any man's lips before, though I have frequented eccentric company enough.
-- He reminded me of it with considerable vigour; but at any rate I prevented a fight.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'They take orders from the Head of the Pack, and not from any striped cattle-killer.
-- The Law of the Jungle lays down very clearly that any wolf may, when he marries, withdraw from the Pack he be-longs to.
-- All he said was: 'Look well, O Wolves!What have the Free People to do with the orders of any save the Free People?
-- Now, the Law of the Jungle lays down that if there is any dispute as to the right of a cub to be accepted by the Pack, he must be spoken for by at least two members of the Pack who are not his father and mother.
-- He took his place at the Council Rock, too, when the Pack met, and there he discovered that if he stared hard at any wolf, the wolf would be forced to drop his eyes, and so he used to stare for fun.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In this, perhaps, he does no more than any other energetic and imaginative race would do, being compelled to set bounds to fancy by experience; but the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that of the African, and is oriental in itself.
-- In point of fact, the country which is the scene of the following tale has undergone as little change, since the historical events alluded to had place, as almost any oth-er district of equal extent within the whole limits of the United States.
-- But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced na-tive warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.
-- Numberless recent massacres were still vivid in their recollections; nor was there any ear in the provinces so deaf as not to have drunk in with avidity the narrative of some fearful tale of midnight murder, in which the natives of the forests were the principal and barbarous actors.
-- It is a circumstance worthy of observation, that while all America rang with his well-merited reputation, his name does not occur in any European account of the battle; at least the author has searched for it without success.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country, and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols.
-- Ichabod, on the con-trary, had to win his way to the heart of a country coquette, beset with a labyrinth of whims and caprices, which were forever presenting new difficulties and impediments; and he had to encounter a host of fearful adversaries of real flesh and blood, the numerous rustic admirers, who beset every portal to her heart, keeping a watchful and angry eye upon each other, but ready to fly out in the common cause against any new competitor.
-- The neighbors looked upon him with a mixture of awe, admiration, and good-will; and, when any madcap prank or rustic brawl occurred in the vicinity, always shook their heads, and warranted Brom Bones was at the bottom of it.
-- To have taken the field openly against his rival would have been madness; for he was not a man to be thwarted in his amours, any more than that stormy lover, Achilles.
-- In this way matters went on for some time, without pro-ducing any material effect on the relative situations of the contending powers.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of those who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents a legend to which it then attaches a fanatical belief.
-- What chance is there that any book will make its way among that multitude?
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