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In its older sense, aught means “anything.” “If aught should happen” is an old way of saying “if anything should happen.” You will meet this in poems, in the Bible, and in speech that is trying to sound old. Almost nobody says it in ordinary conversation now; people say anything. Though actually, American English later grew another use: aught as “zero,” as in “the aughts” for the years 2000 to 2009. That use comes from mixing aught up with naught, which means “nothing.” So the older meaning is “anything,” and a later, looser meaning is “zero.” Both exist; daily English mostly uses neither.
任何事物（古語、文學用語；日常說 anything）
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
aughtpron詞源 1/ɔːt/
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archaicdialectalAnything whatsoever, any part.
- for aught I know/care
- […] wouldst thou aught with me?
aughtadv詞源 1/ɔːt/
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archaicAt all, in any degree, in any respect.
- […] and if your love Can labour aught in sad invention, Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb, And sing it to her bones [...]
aughtnoun詞源 1/ɔːt/
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archaicWhit, the smallest part, iota.
aughtnoun詞源 2/ɔːt/
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Zero.
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The digit zero.
aughtnoun詞源 3/ɔːt/
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regionalEstimation.
- in my aught
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regionalOf importance or consequence (in the phrase "of aught").
- an event of aught
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obsoleterareregionalEsteem, respect.
- a man of aught
- Show some aught to your elders, boy.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。