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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt they expected me to say clever things, and I never could think of any till after the party was over.
-- Everyone seemed to be talking, and I, sitting in silence, felt awkward; but I was too shy to break into any of the groups that seemed absorbed in their own affairs.
-- I could not think of any retort to this, so I asked if Mrs. Strickland had children.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At any rate the passengers, destitute of all marks for their guidance, could not have possessed the means of reckoning the route traversed since their departure.
-- It was the open sea, whose waves were still dashing with tremendous violence!It was the ocean, without any visible limits, even for those whose gaze, from their commanding position, extended over a radius of forty miles.
-- It was necessary at any cost to arrest their downward course, and to prevent the balloon from being engulfed in the waves.
-- The gas escaped without any possibility of retaining it.
-- It can be thus easily understood that when it is lightened of any considerable weight its movement will be impetuous and sudden.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the country, I seldom go out until after dark, though, Heaven be thanked, I love its light and feel the cheerfulness it sheds upon the earth, as much as any creature living.
-- A part of this door was of glass unprotected by any shutter, which I did not observe at first, for all was very dark and silent within, and I was anxious (as indeed the child was also) for an answer to our summons.
-- It would be impossible for any man, I care not what his form of speech might be, to express more affection than the dealer in curiosities did, in these four words.
-- He stopped short at the door on seeing a stranger, twirled in his hand a perfectly round old hat without any vestige of a brim, and resting himself now on one leg and now on the other and changing them constantly, stood in the doorway, looking into the parlour with the most extraordinary leer I ever beheld.
-- He furthermore took occasion to apologize for any negligence that might be perceptible in his dress, on the ground that last night he had had 'the sun very strong in his eyes'; by which expression he was understood to convey to his hearers in the most delicate manner possible, the information that he had been extremely drunk.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It cannot be any worse," said Maslova.
-- She was wooed, but would marry no one, feeling that life with any one of her wooers would be hard, spoiled, as she was, more or less, by the comparative ease she enjoyed in the manor.
-- Thenceforward life ceased to have any charms for her, and her only thought was to escape the shame which awaited her, and not only did she become lax in her duties, but--and she did not know herself how it happened--all of a sudden she gave vent to her ill temper.
-- She was some time without any occupation.
-- The preceding week he had written to her a decisive letter, acknowledging his guilt, and expressing his readiness to redeem it in any manner she should suggest, but for her own good, considered their relations ended.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence?"
-- There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
-- Surely the mercury did not trace this line in any of the dimensions of Space generally recognised?
-- Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of Time, any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground.
-- "That shall travel indifferently in any direction of Space and Time, as the driver determines."
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it couldn't have had any hand in the mischief.
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