anytime
anytime — 副詞
1. on any occasion you choose, with no fixed hour or day in mind; the speaker is le
隨時；不拘時
在不特定的某個時刻，由聽話者自行決定
on any occasion you choose, with no fixed hour or day in mind; the speaker is leaving the moment open rather than pinning it down.
Camille told her cousin she could drop by anytime after seven on Friday.
Camille 跟她的表妹說，週五晚上七點以後隨時都可以過來坐坐。
anytime after + time expression
The clinic on Park Road accepts walk-in patients anytime between nine and five.
公園路上的那間診所，早上九點到下午五點之間任何時候都收免預約的病人。
anytime between X and Y
Noa says I can borrow his blue bicycle anytime I need to ride into town.
Noa 說只要我需要進城，隨時都可以借他那台藍色腳踏車。
Feel free to call Grandma anytime; she loves hearing your voice.
你隨時都可以打電話給奶奶，她最喜歡聽到你的聲音。
The little puppy might wake up anytime now and start barking for food.
那隻小狗可能隨時會醒過來，然後開始汪汪叫討東西吃。
- whenever
stronger sense of 'no matter when'; often introduces a clause
- at any time
two-word formal equivalent; preferred in writing and official notices
- any old time
very informal; suggests speaker is relaxed about timing
- never
rules out every possible moment, the opposite of 'on any occasion'
- at a fixed time
phrase, not a single word; opposes the open-ended sense
文法句型
anytime + clause
anytime between/before/after + time
用法筆記
Common in informal speech and writing; in formal documents 'at any time' is preferred. Often appears at the end of a clause or before a 'between/after/before' phrase. The fixed expression 'anytime now' means 'very soon'.