everyone 与 every one 不同

有读者问: everyone 与 every one 有什么不同?

everyone 指“每人,人人”(everybody), 常指较为熟悉者,其后不可接 of 短语,如:

(1)In here everyone is a comrade.

(3)Have you told everyone about it?

有时概括性很强,如:

(3)Everyone says so.

(4)Everyone is liable to err.

every one 不但可指人,也可指物,如:

(5)Every one loves his mother.(every one 指人)

(6)He took every one . (every one 可指物)

every one 之后常接 of 短语,如:

(7)Every one of us knows that even the most carefully devised systems are not proof against errors.

(8)I tried every one of them .

every one 比较强调个别性,常重读 one, 除上述例(5)和例(7)外,再举一更为典型的例证如下:

(9)They were killed, every one of them .