2.4 形容词短语用作后置定语

形容词短语用作定语时，通常放在被修饰语的后面。

1. The teachers’ language shared many of the features of the mechanical question-

and-answer drills characteristic of audiolingual classroom.

教师的语言具有许多听说课堂上机械的问答操练的特征。

2. I would never make a mistake this stupid and jeopardize everything we’ve built.

我从不会犯这么低级的错误，并危及我们所建造的一切。

3. And this resulted in a relationship of linguist to teacher reminiscent of a family

tree. Let us take the Audiolingual Method as an example.

语言学家和教师的关系让人想起家族关系。以“听说法”为例。

4. An institution for testing people's attitudes found that a good vocabulary is the

only characteristic common to successful people.

一家民意测试机构发现拥有丰富的词汇是成功人士唯一的共性。

5. On average one American died of heart disease attributable to smoking.

死于心脏病的美国人通常是因为吸烟造成的。

6. The director was a man ruthless and efficient, who at times, but very imperceptibly

indulged in grim humor.

主任是一个狠毒、干练的人，时常纵情欣赏自己的极为微妙的残酷的幽默。

7. this place devoid of Chinese people 这地方没有华人

8. Some towns rich in producing maple syrup started to hold Maple Syrup Festivals,

one after another.

一些盛产枫糖的市镇都纷纷举办枫糖节。

9. The number of Americans 65 and older will double in the next 25 years to about 72

million, according to government census data. By then, seniors will account for nearly

20 percent of the population, up from just 12 percent in 2003.

根据政府的人口普查数据，在未来 25 年内，美国 65 岁及以上人群将成倍

增长，达到大约7200 万。到那时，老年人将占人口总数的近 20%，而这个

数据在 2003 年只有 12%。

10. Not my love, or Paula's love or the love of strangers on a banana boat, but a

love so all-encompassing it will take a lifetime to grasp.

不是我的爱，不是波拉的爱，也不是香蕉船上那些陌生人的爱，而是如此包

罗万象的一种爱——他要用一生去理解。

11. a policy obstructive to our plans 妨碍我们计划的政策

12. It's an abstract painting suggestive of a desert landscape.

这幅抽象画展示了一幅荒凉的景色。

13. Hawthorne's literary world turns out to be a most disturbed and problematical

one possible to imagine.

可以想象霍桑的文学世界是最令人不安和问题不断的。

14. in every way possible 千方百计

15. the people nearest to me 离我最近的