| 词组 | any and all |
| 释义 | any and all This phrase, an emphatic form of any intended to cover all possibilities, has its chief use in legal documents such as contracts and official regulations: • He shall have the power to suspend any and all members so offending —Rules and Regulations of the Fire Department, Springfield, Mass., 1949 Bernstein 1958, 1965, Copperud 1964, and Shaw 1975 disparage its use in ordinary prose; the one epithet they agree on is "trite." Whether writers have yielded to authority on this point or whether the phrase is just not very appealing, our evidence shows it rather uncommon in extralegal use. A few examples: • ... over a thousand being arrested in one night and the fact of any and all arrests being kept an official secret —A. Morgan Young, The Rise of a Pagan State, 1939 • ... he had not realized how completely mistrusted and feared were any and all Indians here in Eastern Pennsylvania —F. Van Wyck Mason, The Winter at Valley Forge, 1953 • There is, then, prior to any and all principles of logic a principle of metaphysics declaring for this self-consistency —Modern Schoolman, January 1954 It is perhaps sometimes unavoidable in text relating to legal matters: • The company contends that the grant of immunity from further prosecution which was part of the bargain disposes of any and all federal criminal charges —The Economist, 1 Feb. 1975 You will probably have little need of it. |
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