Liberal Democrat （英國）自由民主黨｜字脈

核心畫面

One way to hold this: a party name is a label that can be worn by the organisation and by the people inside it, and English lets it slide between the two without changing shape. The grammar does the work that the words do not. 'The Liberal Democrats' with 'the' and a plural points at the party; 'a Liberal Democrat' with 'a' points at one person; and the bare singular in front of another noun — Liberal Democrat policy — behaves almost like an adjective. Capital letters mark the whole thing as a name rather than a description.

可以想成，政黨的名字是一張標籤：組織自己掛著它，裡面的人也把它別在身上。英文不會改字形，而是靠文法讓這張標籤在「黨」…更多收起

可以想成，政黨的名字是一張標籤：組織自己掛著它，裡面的人也把它別在身上。英文不會改字形，而是靠文法讓這張標籤在「黨」和「人」之間移動。the Liberal Democrats（the＋複數）通常指黨；a Liberal Democrat（a＋單數）通常指人；單數直接放在名詞前面，例如 Liberal Democrat policy，功能就接近形容詞。兩個字都大寫，是在提醒你這是一個專名，不是在描述某人的政治信念。

One branch

黨名，以及戴著這個黨名的人

同一個專名的兩個落點：組織本身，以及屬於它的人。靠冠詞和單複數分辨。

noun · B2

A political party in Britain. When people mean the party itself they almost always use the plural with 'the' — the Liberal Democrats — and in newspapers and speech it is often shortened to the Lib Dems.

（英國）自由民主黨