第二节 后 置 定 语

汉语中的定语多数是前置，放在被修饰语前面，而英语中定语位置相对灵活, 可以前置或

后置。

2.1 “of”短语用作后置定语

英语中为了表达需要，可以用“of”短语作后置定语。

1. What is worse is that I literally kill my computers within two years of purchase, such

that I have gone through more hard drives in my lifetime than I have new pairs of

shoes.

更糟糕的是，不夸张地说我弄坏了我买了不到两年的电脑，以致于我一生更换的硬盘比买

的新鞋还要多。

2. They might do like my mother did and make a picture of a giant shinny fish using

the disks that I have thrown out over the years.

他们可能会像我妈妈一样把我多年扔掉的光盘拼成一个巨大的闪闪发光的鱼形图。

3. She and two other students represented their class of 13 at the conference in

Boston, where the team was given an award from NAIS for their work.

她与另外两个同学代表她们班 13 名同学出席了波士顿的会议——在会上，全国独立学校

协会因她们工作出色，向她们颁了奖。

4. the morning of our trip to the San Juans 圣胡安之旅的那天早晨

5. the best writer of the year 年度最佳作家

6. my husband of only one year 结婚才一年的丈夫

7. his friends of many years 他多年的朋友

8. English wife of 20 years 结婚 20 年的英国妻子

9. It has a population of 390 000 people and an area of 1200 square kilometers.

拥有 390 000 人口，面积 1200 平方公里。

10. I came upon a little lad of perhaps ten years old. 我碰到一个大约 10 岁的少年。

11. It is a day of the gathering of the family—to give thanks for the year’s blessings.

这是一个家庭聚会的日子——感恩上帝一年的保佑。

12. I have ordered that a lunch of bread and cheese shall be served to all.

我已经吩咐给大家准备了面包和乳酪当点心。

13. on a day of indescribable glory 在一个辉煌无比的日子

14. like many women of her background 像许多具有她这种背景的人一样

15. a group of some 20 people 一个 20 人左右的团队

16. a girl of Indian parents 一个女孩，其父母是印度人

17. Ford relays matter-of-factly the tragedy of his early life: born Leslie King Jr. in

Omaha, Neb., son of a doting mother and an abusive father.

福特以平淡的口吻讲述了他早年的坎坷经历：出生于内布拉斯加州奥马哈市，原名小莱斯

利·金，有一个过分慈爱的母亲和一个暴虐的父亲。

18. In August, she moved back home to New Jersey, with her father, an engineer, and

mother, a school teacher.

8 月，她与当工程师的父亲和当教师的母亲一起搬回新泽西州的家中。

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