You can picture 'anything' as an open hand sweeping across every possible thing and saying 'whichever — it doesn't matter which one'. The base feeling is no limits and no particular choice: any one out of all of them is fine. From that open sweep, the grammar around it (questions, negatives, fixed phrases) bends the same idea into many shapes.

可以想成一隻手在所有可能的東西上一掃而過,說「哪個都行、不挑」。核心感覺是沒有設限、不指定哪一個:全部裡面隨便一個都可以。從這個「全面開放、任挑」的畫面出發,再被它周圍的語法(疑問、否定、固定片語)折成各種形狀。

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原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

anythingpron詞源 1/ˈɛn.ɪ.θɪŋ/

  • 1

    Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatsoever; a thing of any kind; something or other.

    • I would not do it for anything.
    • Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
  • 2

    Expressing an indefinite comparison.

    • Perhaps it was this atmosphere of misplacedness and loneliness as much as anything which led her to speak to him one evening in early summer when the office had closed.

anythingnoun詞源 1/ˈɛn.ɪ.θɪŋ/

  • 1

    Someone or something of importance.

    • How long does it take to turn you actors into good anythings?
    • So we tried not to talk about first or second anythings until our meeting with the rabbi.

anythingverb詞源 1/ˈɛn.ɪ.θɪŋ/

  • 1

    Used as a placeholder verb for any verb out of a set of related verbs.

    • 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!

anythingadv詞源 2/ˈɛn.ɪ.θɪŋ/

  • 1

    In any way, any extent or any degree.

    • That isn't anything like a car.
    • She's not anything like as strong as me.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。