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形容词还可以这样用!五大「后置形容词」用法总整理!

1. Post-positive is necessary in certain institutionalized expressions.在某些制度化的表达; 或是成语的使用例如:the Governor General/Princess Royal/poet laureate/times past2. Post-position is obligatory when the adjective

1. Post-positive is necessary in certain institutionalized expressions.

在某些制度化的表达; 或是成语的使用

例如:the Governor General/Princess Royal/poet laureate/times past

2. Post-position is obligatory when the adjective modifies a pronoun. 

在形容代名词的时候 (e.g. something, anything, everything, nothing, everyone, anybody,…+ adj.)

例如:something different/nothing wrong/everyone present /those responsible

形容词还可以这样用!五大「后置形容词」用法总整理!

3. Post-positive adjectives are commonly found together with superlative, attributive adjectives.

前有限定最高级或all, every, only, the few形容词,则以ible或able做字尾的形容词,放在名词后。但possible例外,可放前后。

例如:the shortest route possible/the worst conditions imaginable/the best hotel available/all things imaginable

4. Some adjectives must be placed in the post-position: akin, alive, present, else

有一些形容词必须置于被修饰的名词的后面。

例如:all things alive/everyone present/mankind alone

5. Some adjectives (responsible, involved, concerned) can have different meanings when they are placed in different positions.

有些形容词像responsible, involved, concerned前置或后置意思不同。

例如:

I’m writing to you as you are the person responsible.

I’m writing to you as you are a responsible person.

a responsible person意为「可信赖的人」「可靠的人」

the person responsible 意为「 负责人」、「主管人」

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