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尽管听上去不大可能,但有关形容词的用法的确成了一个热门话题。它的焦点是马克·福赛斯在《雄辩的要素》一书中所提出的观点:置于名词之前的形容词必须恪守以下排序——评判、大小、新旧、形状、颜色、来源、质地、目的,然后是名词。在福赛斯看来,这一排序稍被打乱,就会让说话人听着像胡言乱语。为了阐明他的观点,福赛斯提出了如下例句:“a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife(一把可爱小巧旧的矩形绿色产自法国的银制削刀)”。然而,这样一个“规则”是否值得在网上掀起轩然大波,抑或不过是无关紧要的杯水之涟?
Although it seems unlikely, the use of adjectives has become a hot topic. It focuses on the point made by Marc Forsyth in The Eloquent Key: The adjectives that precede the nouns must adhere to the following sorts-judgment, size, age, shape, color, origin, texture, purpose , Then the noun. For Forsyth, the order was slightly disrupted, allowing the speaker to listen to nonsense. To illustrate his point, Forsyth made the following example: “A lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife.” However, such a “rules ” is worth setting off an uproar on the Internet, or is it just an insignificant cup of water?