名词短语

Of a different noun to make a useful phrase.

然后，把这些形容词放到不同的名词前，搭配组成有用短语

Before a noun or adverbial phrase, both from and to are acceptable in British English.

若用在名词或状语短语前，英式英语使用from和to均可。

Great living starts with a picture, held in some person's imagination, of what he would like someday to do or be.

句中&picture&后有两个后置定语，一个是 held 分词短语，另一个是 of what 名词从句。本句意思：&伟大的生活起始于一个人在想象中幻想自己有朝一日能做出什么事业或成为什么人物。&

Man sometimes appears to have the sense of "person" or "people" when it is used as a count noun, as in A man is known by the company he keeps and Men have long yearned to unlock the secrets of the atom, and in phrases like the common man and the man in the street.

当man 这个字被当作一个可数名词来用时，它有时似乎具有&一个人&或&人们&的意思，如在被他所在的那个公司熟悉了解的人和很久以来，人们都期盼着解开原子的秘密，以及如下短语中普通的人和街上的人。

As the trade winds lessen in 48 , the ocean temperatures rise, causing the Peru current flowing in from the east to warm up by as much as 5 °C.

在介词in的后面，当为名词无疑，注意要搞清楚，in有多种意义，此处整个短语来修饰lessen减少，当为在某个方面减少。

I am accused of being overreligious," she said in her quiet, frank manner,"but that does not prevent me thinking the children very cruel who obstinately commit such suicide.""

客人们在卡罗利娜·埃凯家里，举止就文雅一些，因为卡罗利娜的母亲治家很严厉。

Designed by French fashion house Herm è s, this elegant uniform was manufactured in our home, Hong Kong, and was the first without a hat.

由著名品牌 Herm è s 设计，这件高贵的制服是香港本土制造，是我们第一套不配帽子的制服。