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    nA2

    /ˈædʒəktɪv/

    a word that describes a noun or a pronoun, such as "black" in "a black hat" or "happy" in "It makes her happy".

    形容詞

    複數 adjectives

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

You can think of an adjective as a word whose whole job is to lean on a noun and add something to it. "Hat" only names a thing; put "black" next to it and you get "a black hat" — same hat, more information. It can sit right in front of the noun (a black hat) or come after a verb like be, seem, make (It makes her happy), but either way it is always pointing at some noun or pronoun.

可以想成一種「靠著名詞才有工作」的字：hat 只是說出一個東西，把 black 放到它旁邊，就成了 a black …更多收起可以想成一種「靠著名詞才有工作」的字：hat 只是說出一個東西，把 black 放到它旁邊，就成了 a black hat——還是同一頂帽子，但你多知道了一件事。它可以直接站在名詞前面（a black hat），也可以出現在 be、seem、make 這類動詞後面（It makes her happy）；不管站哪裡，它指向的永遠是某個名詞或代名詞。

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

adjectivenoun/ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/

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    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.

    • The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives.
    • "They'll have to invent new adjectives when I come back. You wait!"
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    obsoleteA dependent; an accessory.

    • it must be an adjective of dain

adjectiveadj/ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/

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    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsAdjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.

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    lawApplying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.

    • The whole English law, substantive and adjective.
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    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesNeeding the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.

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    obsoleteIncapable of independent function.

    • In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.

adjectiveverb/ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/

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    To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.

    • Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has […] adjectived all three.
    • In English, instead of adjectiving our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, adjectived signs from other languages[…]
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    To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.

    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:adjective.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。