对话中冠词与不定代词使用的质疑

A: I know Ms. Lee was always patient with you in math.

She helped you to work out the answers yourself no matter how difficult they were.

B: Yes, and Mr. Brown guided me to do a lot better in science. He always took the time

to explain things to me clearly whenever I couldnt understand anything.

问题一,time前的定冠词,我认为用零冠词更自然,表示泛指意义。除非说话人认为听话者知道,明白这里花费的time是哪段或哪些时间。

问题二更重要,最后的一句中的anything,我觉得应该改用something更合适,因为根据这里语境的表意,应该是是说话者B无论何时遇到不懂的某问题不懂或不理解时,Mr. Brown 总会向说话者B解释清楚,所以应该是...whenever I couldnt understand something,而不是全面的否定...couldnt understand anything(...could understand nothing).

以上是我个人的看法,盼望,刘等专家给予指导,十分感谢您。


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