他们只是提供了一个不同类别形容词的层次结构，(不管有没有原因)该结构在英语中基本上是有固定顺序的。
What they do have is a hierarchy of adjective classes that (for whatever reason) occurs in a more-or-less fixed order in English.
一本11岁孩子学的教科书里有个令人莫名其妙的建议：“请记住这个缩写——DOCSiShQACNMN——这有助于你们记忆一系列形容词的顺序。”
A book for 11-year-olds advises, mysteriously: “Just remember this acronym—DOCSiShQACNMN—to make it easy for you to remember the order of adjectives in a series.”
比如，这周bbc的马修·安德森指出一条关于顺序的“规则”，也就是形容词必须放在名词之前。
This week, for example, the BBC's Matthew Anderson pointed out a "rule" about the order in which adjectives have to be put in front of a noun.
我发现我一直说着同样的话，用着同样的形容词，按着同样的顺序来描述。
I found myself using the same phrases, the same adjectives in the same order.
坚持细节的专家马克·福赛斯在书中写道，形容词“当然必须要按照这个顺序来说：意见-尺寸-年龄-形状-颜色-起源-材料-用途名词。”
Adjectives, writes the author, professional stickler Mark Forsyth, "absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun."
当几个形容词修饰同一个名词时，它们就必须遵循英语中的一个特定顺序。
When several adjectives modify the same noun, there is a particular order they must follow in English.
这些形容词都含有在时间上或顺序上位于其它之后的意思。
These adjectives mean coming after all others in chronology or sequence.
形容词的词序在别的语言里也是固定的，虽然不全是；不同的语言里顺序并不尽相同。
The order is fixed in other languages, too, though not all, and it's not quite the same order across languages.
然而，实际上，形容词是有其正常顺序的。
然而，实际上，形容词是有其正常顺序的。
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