英语语法入门：形容词的顺序

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Sometimes we use more than one adjective in front of a noun:有时候我们用一个以上形容词来修饰名词：
        He was a nice intelligent young man.
        She had a small round black wooden box.
        Opinion adjectives:
        Some adjectives give a general opinion. We can use these adjectives to describe almost any noun:有些形容词给了一个大体的描述。我们可以用这些形容词来描述几乎所有名词：
       

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        Some adjectives give a specific opinion. We only use these adjectives to describe particular kinds of noun:有些形容词给了一个特殊的含义。我们只用这些形容词来描述特定的名词：
        Food: tasty; delicious
        Furniture, buildings: comfortable; uncomfortable
        People, animals: clever; intelligent; friendly
        We usually put a general opinion in front of a specific opinion:我们经常在特殊概念前用一个普遍的概念：
        Nice tasty soup.
        A nasty uncomfortable armchair
        A lovely intelligent animal
        Usually we put an adjective that gives an opinion in front of an adjective that is descriptive:通常我们放一个描述性形容词在某个被描述的形容词前面
        a nice red dress; a silly old man; those horrible yellow curtains
        We often have two adjectives in front of a noun:我们经常将两个形容词放在一个名词前面：
        a handsome young man; a big black car; that horrible big dog
        Sometimes we have three adjectives, but this is unusual:有时候会用到三个形容词，但这是不太寻常的：
        a nice handsome young man;
        a big black American car;
        that horrible big fierce dog
        It is very unusual to have more than three adjectives.
        Adjectives usually come in this order:形容词通常以这种顺序排列：
       

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        We use some adjectives only after a link verb:有些形容词只用在系动词后面：
       

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        Some of the commonest -ed adjectives are normally used only after a link verb:一些最普通的以-ed结尾的形容词通常只用在系动词后面：
        annoyed; finished; bored; pleased; thrilled
        We say:我们说：
        Our teacher was ill.
        My uncle was very glad when he heard the news.
        The policeman seemed to be very annoyed
        but we do not say:但我们不说：
        We had an ill teacher.
        When he heard the news he was a very glad uncle
        He seemed to be a very annoyed policeman
        A few adjectives are used only in front of a noun:有些形容词只用在名词前面：
       

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        We say:
        He lives in the eastern district.
        There were countless problems with the new machinery.
        but we do not say:
        The district he lives in is eastern
        The problems with the new machinery were countless.