any
/en-ee/US // ˈɛn i //UK // (ˈɛnɪ) //
任何,任何的,任意
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Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : one, a, an, or some; one or more without specification or identification: If you have any witnesses, produce them. Pick out any six you like.
- : whatever or whichever it may be: cheap at any price.
- : in whatever quantity or number, great or small; some: Do you have any butter?
- : every; all: Any schoolboy would know that. Read any books you find on the subject.
- : at all: She can't endure any criticism.
pron.代词 pronoun
- 1
- : an unspecified person or persons; anybody; anyone: He does better than any before him.
- : a single one or ones; an unspecified thing or things; a quantity or number:We don't have any left.
adv.副词 adverb
Phrases
- any day
- any longer
- any number of
- any old
- any port in a storm
- at any rate
- by any means
- go to any length
- in any case
- under any (no) circumstances
Synonyms & Antonyms
determinerone, some; unspecified, indiscriminate
Examples
The open-up-to-any-chapter method might, in fact, be the best approach here.
Stalking the unexpected is “an all-year-round, any-kind-of-weather sport,” she says.
For he's the soul of honor, Thyrsis; and he can't help how he feels about me-any more than I can help it.
I appeal to yourself, Madam, whether these sublime notions have-any thing consoling in them?
They take their coats off anywhere and any-when, and somehow it strikes the visitor as the most symbolic thing about them.
Hyphens are sometimes used in cases like the following: "A never-to-be-forgotten event," "peace-at-any-rate principles."
On the fall of Richmond, and the surrender of Lee, this any-how impracticable scheme was necessarily abandoned.
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