有些英美学者认为,anyone不能分写成any one,而有些学者则认为可以,但有以下区别:
(一)anybody 等于anyone.anyone专用以指人,不指物,意思是“任何人”, 重音落在any了之上,它不作“任何一个”解;any one既可用以指人,又可用以指物,其意为“任何一个”,如any one of you(不用anyone of you),重音落在one之上。
(二)any one比anyone更强调“个别”(more distributive force)的意味;anyone则含有“全体”、“毫无例外”(all and without exception)之意。因此,其后有时可用复数形式的代词来指代它。如:
Anyone can enter for the competition,can't they?
下面请对比anyone和any one在句中的不同涵义:
Anyone may pay a visit to the palace。任何人(即所有的人)都可以到皇宫一游。
Any one of uw may paya visit to the palace.我们当中任何一个都可以到皇宫-游。
Anyone who does it is risking his life.任何人做此等事都要冒着生命危险。
请注意,anyone之后不能用one's或one等词来指代它,如上句不能改作Anyone who does it is risking one's life。
Which screw do you want? Any one will do. “你要哪一枚螺丝钉?” “随便哪个都行”。
与之类似区别的的词有:anybody和any body; anything和any thing; eneryone和every one; everybody和every body。
如所周知,everyone, everybody, anyone, anybody,every, each等词一般都是表示“单数”的概念,句中其后指代的代词用his或her。但在现代英语中,不少英美人士却用复数的代名词来代替单数代词。下面的例句都是选自英美的知名文学家的作品:
Nobody knows what it is to lose a friend till they have lost him. (Fielding)
I do not mean that I think anyone to blame for taking due care of their health. (Addison)
Everybody is discontented with their lot in life. (Beaconsfield)
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