| 词组 | anymore |
| 释义 | anymore 1. Both anymore and any more are found in current written use. Although usage prescribers disagree about which form to use—"preferably spelled as one word" (Shaw 1975); "two words" (Bremner 1980)—the one-word styling is the more common. Feel free to write it as two words, if you prefer. 2. Anymore is regularly used in negative contexts ("we never go there anymore"), in questions ("do you listen to the radio anymore?"), and in conditional contexts ("if you do that anymore, I'll leave"). It is used in a number of positive statements in which the implication is negative: • There's only one woman for him any more —Owen Wister, The Virginian, 1902 • Damn few people take the time to read anymore — William Du Bois, The Island in the Square, 1947 • The Washingtonian is too sophisticated to believe any more in solutions —Russell Baker, N. Y. Times Mag., 14 Feb. 1965 • ... thought about whether such a profession as merely pork butcher exists any more —Times Literary Supp., 13 Mar. 1969 • ... she found it harder and harder to sort out anymore what was worth saving and how best to save it —Russell Baker, Growing Up, 1982 • Few private owners have worthwhile collections anymore —Spencer Davidson, Avenue, March 1984 None of these uses draws comment. But anymore is also used in contexts with no negative implication, much to the consternation and perplexity of some usage writers: • Every time I even smile at a man any more the papers have me practically married to him —Betty Grable, quoted in Time, 25 Nov. 1940 • Useta be I had to go down to the still and carry my own whisky outa the Hollow, but anymore I'm such a good customer they tote it up here ... for me — Charley Robertson, Shadow of a Cloud, 1950 • In a way he almost felt sorry for him, any more — James Jones, From Here to Eternity, 1951 • Listening is a rare art anymore —Alma Holland, Writer's Digest, March 1970 • Who I would vote for anymore is the stronger learner, of whatever party —Stewart Brand, Esquire, July 1970 • It sometimes seems to me that all I do anymore is go to funerals —Harry S. Truman, quoted in Merle Miller, Plain Speaking, 1973 • Every time we leave the house anymore, I play a game called "Stump the Housebreaker" —Erma Bombeck, syndicated column, 24 Jan. 1973 • "There's a funny thing about women any more," said author and humorist Peg Bracken, "and that's that there isn't much funny about women any more." —Bob Outright, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 1977 • ... everybody's cool anymore —Bill White, N.Y. Yankees baseball telecast, 26 Mar. 1984 This usage is dialectal. It has been discovered anew almost every year since 1931 and has been abundantly documented. The Dictionary of American Regional English reports it to be widespread in all dialect areas of the U.S. except New England. It appears to have been of Midland origin—the states where it is most common appear to be Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana, and Oklahoma—and has spread considerably to such other states as New York, New Jersey, Iowa, Minnesota, California, and Oregon. It is still predominantly a spoken feature, although, as the citations above show, it does appear in fiction and occasionally in journalistic sources. Both the older American Dialect Dictionary and the new DARE note that it is used by persons of all educational levels; it is not substandard, and it is not a feature of speech that is considered indicative of social standing. Bryant 1962 conjectures that the positive anymore may have come to the U.S. with Scotch-Irish immigrants in the 18th century. There is an any more listed in the English Dialect Dictionary that occurs in both positive and negative contexts, but its meaning is different from that of the American usage. D. H. Lawrence, however, did put it into the mouth of the character named Rupert Birkin in his novel Women in Love, published in 1920: • "Quite absurd," he said. "Suffering bores me, any more." And P. W. Joyce, in English As We Speak It in Ireland (1910), notes the existence of a positive use of any more in the West and Northwest of Ireland. It is also used in Canada. Modern Canadian English Usage (1974) reports 8 or 9 percent of its respondents using the positive anymore with the highest incidences found in Ontario and Newfoundland. Although many who encounter the usage for the first time think it is new, it is not: the earliest attestation cited in the DARE is dated 1859. 3. Some handbooks and dictionaries caution against confusing the adverb anymore ("we don't go there anymore") with the phrase any more where more is a pronoun or adjective, as in "we don't have any more" or "I can't eat any more pizza." The adverb may be written either closed or open, as noted in section 1 above, but the phrase should certainly be written open. |
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