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anything是指用以叙述可能存在或可能发生的一项事物或事件或用以叙述某一特定类别中的各项事物或事件; 主要用于疑问句、否定句或条件从句中代替something,意为“任何东西,任何事情绝对不”。
anything也可用于肯定句,表示“无论什么东西,随便什么事情”。
anything用作主语时,谓语动词用单数形式，其代词也用单数（it）。
anything不能置于否定词前。
anything后可接介词about或of。
形容词或else等修饰anything等复合不定代词时只能后置,不能前置。

anything不用于比较等级。
anything不可以分开写成any thing；
同any相似，通常不习惯把anything用在主语里而在谓语里用否定词。Anything does not disturb me.（错误用法） Nothing disturbs me.（正确用法）

“What's that strange noise?”“Don't worry;it isn't anything.”
“那种奇怪的声音是什么？”“别担心，没有什么大事。”

It is hoped that the remaining books are anything up to the standard of those already published.
但愿余下的书都能达到业已出版的水平。

You use anything in statements with negative meaning to indicate in a general way that nothing is present or that an action or event does not or cannot happen.
You use anything in questions and conditional clauses to ask or talk about whether something is present or happening.
You can use anything before words that indicate the kind of thing you are talking about.
You use anything to emphasize a possible thing, event, or situation, when you are saying that it could be any one of a very large number of things.
You use anything in expressions such as anything near, anything close to and anything like to emphasize a statement that you are making.
When you do not want to be exact, you use anything to talk about a particular range of things or quantities.
You use anything but in expressions such as anything but quiet and anything but attractive to emphasize that something is not the case.
You can say that you would not do something for anything to emphasize that you definitely would not want to do or be a particular thing. /
You use if anything, especially after a negative statement, to introduce a statement that adds to what you have just said.
You can add or anything to the end of a clause or sentence in order to refer vaguely to other things that are or may be similar to what you just mentioned.