漢語(yǔ)中的定語(yǔ)多數(shù)是前置，放在被修飾語(yǔ)前面，而英語(yǔ)中定語(yǔ)位置相對(duì)靈活, 可以前置或

后置。

2.1 “of”短語(yǔ)用作后置定語(yǔ)

英語(yǔ)中為了表達(dá)需要，可以用“of”短語(yǔ)作后置定語(yǔ)。

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，不夸張地說(shuō)我弄壞了我買了不到兩年的電腦，以致于我一生更換的硬盤比買

的新鞋還要多。

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.

他們可能會(huì)像我媽媽一樣把我多年扔掉的光盤拼成一個(gè)巨大的閃閃發(fā)光的魚形圖。

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.

她與另外兩個(gè)同學(xué)代表她們班 13 名同學(xué)出席了波士頓的會(huì)議——在會(huì)上，全國(guó)獨(dú)立學(xué)校

協(xié)會(huì)因她們工作出色，向她們頒了獎(jiǎng)。

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 結(jié)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 結(jié)婚 20 年的英國(guó)妻子

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

擁有 390 000 人口，面積 1200 平方公里。

10. I came upon a little lad of perhaps ten years old. 我碰到一個(gè)大約 10 歲的少年。

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

這是一個(gè)家庭聚會(huì)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.

我已經(jīng)吩咐給大家準(zhǔn)備了面包和乳酪當(dāng)點(diǎn)心。

13. on a day of indescribable glory 在一個(gè)輝煌無(wú)比的日子

14. like many women of her background 像許多具有她這種背景的人一樣

15. a group of some 20 people 一個(gè) 20 人左右的團(tuán)隊(duì)

16. a girl of Indian parents 一個(gè)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.

福特以平淡的口吻講述了他早年的坎坷經(jīng)歷：出生于內(nèi)布拉斯加州奧馬哈市，原名小萊斯

利·金，有一個(gè)過(guò)分慈愛的母親和一個(gè)暴虐的父親。

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

mother, a school teacher.

8 月，她與當(dāng)工程師的父親和當(dāng)教師的母親一起搬回新澤西州的家中。

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