anyone和any one的區別

anyone（或any one）是一個單詞還是兩個單詞呢？答案取決於我們怎麼去使用這個單詞或短語。在這兩個詞之間加上空格，它的性質也就發生了變化。

不定代詞anyone（一個詞語）指的是所有的人都是如此，沒有出現例外的個人。

any one（兩個詞）是一個形容詞短語，指的是一個羣體中的任意一個成員（可以是人，也可以是物）。any one通常後面會接上介詞of。

A similar distinction applies to anybody and any body, nobody and no body.

anybody和any body，nobody和no body之間的區別也與這個類似。

例子

"People pushing wagons were likely to knock down anyone in their path."

推着車子的人們可能會將路上的任何人擊倒。

(Isaac Bashevis Singer, "The Key." The New Yorker, 1970)

（艾薩克·巴什維斯·辛格，《鑰匙》。紐約，1970）

"No one has time any More for anyone else. You're one of the few who put up with me."

沒有人願意將時間浪費在他人身上。你是爲數不多的能容忍我的人。

(Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451. Ballantine Books, 1953)

（雷·布萊伯利，《華氏451度》，1953）

Any one of your buddies, if he's careless enough, could turn out to be your enemy.

你的任何一個朋友，如果他十分粗心大意，那麼他就會成爲你的敵人。

"She never admitted that any one of her pupils, even the ones who were unmistakably tone deaf, were deficient in musical talent."

她從未承認過自己有學生，即使是那些五音不全，缺乏音樂天賦的。

(Tennessee Williams, "The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin." Flair, 1951)

（田納西·威廉斯，《琴盒與棺材的相似點》。弗萊爾，1951）

"In the art room, a class that used to sit through the interminable 'slide show' is now engaged in a Web tour of the works in the Louvre and can zoom in to study the fine details of any one of the paintings."

“美術教室裏，以往不得不耐着性子看完‘幻燈片秀’的同學們，此時正專心致志地藉助網絡欣賞着盧浮宮的作品，研究者每幅畫作的精美細節。”

(Robert T. Tauber and Cathy Sargent Mester, Acting Lessons for Teachers, 2nd ed. Praeger, 2007)

（羅伯特T.陶博和凱西·薩金特·美斯特爾，《教師表演課程》，第二版，普雷格，2007）

Usage Note

"What's the difference between anyone and any one? Or between everyone and every one? First, they are all grammatically singular, regardless of meaning. But there is a difference in meaning between the one- and two-word versions: when you type anyone or everyone, you're referring to people; when you type any one or every one you may be referring to people, but not necessarily--it depends on what follows or what is understood."

anyone和any one，或者說everyone和every one的區別在哪裏呢？首先，把意義放在一邊，從語法上講它們都是單數，但是，一個詞語和兩個詞語在意思上是存在差別的，當你輸入anyone或everyone時，你指的是人；當你輸入any one或every one時，你指的就不一定是人了。這取決於後面的詞語或者人們的理解。

For example, perhaps you mean 'any one of the customers' or 'every one of the customers' (in which case you are referring to people); or maybe you mean 'any one of the petunias' or 'every one of the petunias' (in which case you are not referring to people). In sum, any one and every one mean one of a group (of people or things), rather than one person (anyone) or a bunch of people (everyone)."

例如，你想表達的是‘顧客中的任何一個’或者‘顧客中的每一個’（這種情況下你指的是人）；或者你想說‘喇叭花中的一朵’或‘每一朵喇叭花’（這種情況下你指的就不是人）。總而言之，any one和every one指的是一個羣體（人或物）中的一個，而不是單獨的一個人（anyone）或一羣人（everyone）。

(Janis Bell, Clean, Well-Lighted Sentences: A Guide to Avoiding the Most Common Errors in Grammar and Punctuation. W.W. Norton, 2008)

（佳尼斯·貝爾，《乾淨利落的句子：語法和標點常見錯誤規避指南》。W.W.諾頓，2008）

練習

(a) Does ______ know who first said, "You can't trust anybody over 30"?

(b) If ______ of the 25 barons should die, the remaining barons shall choose a replacement.

答案

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