英语名词短语结构中可以包含多个修饰语和中心词,结构关系具有可变性、不确定性,因而极易产生歧义。
A noun phrase can consist of more than one key nouns and modifiers, which makes the structural relationship variable and indefinite, and so it can easily cause ambiguity.
weird是古英语时期的一个名词(表示命运),现在仍能在过时的短语to dree one ' s weird(承担某人的命运)中看见这个词。
Weird was a noun in Old English (" fate, destiny "), as still seen in the archaic phrase to dree one's weird "to suffer one's fate."
若用在名词或状语短语前,英式英语使用。
Before a noun or adverbial phrase , bothBfrombandBtobare acceptable in British English.
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