“The ____ teacher is having a talk with the doctor. A. ill B. sick C. illness D. sickness
这位生病的老师正在和医生谈话。
□命题目的:本题考查形容词。
□解题关键:辨析 sick 和 ill 的用法。
□深度讲解:ill 是形容词,‘有病的,不健康的’意思,ill 只能在句中作表语。不能用在名词前作定语。故不能错选 A 项。”(《海淀名题·初中英语语法完全解题》,东北师大出版社,p.115)
请问 ill 真的不能用作定语吗?
L.G. Alexander 在 LEG 中指出, ill 和 well 通常不能用作定语, 但同时又指出, He's an ill man. 的说法已日益增多。事实确实如此:
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The ill person... (Reading Faster) 病人……
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... in order to spend more time with his seriously ill wife... (TIME) ……为了跟重病的妻子多度过一些时光……
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hospital: a place where ill people stay and have treatment which should cure them (LDCE) 医院:病人在那里接受治疗的地方
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I had appointments all morning, meeting with ill people. I had no time to think. 整个上午我都有预约，会见病人。我没有时间思考。
由此看来，上面的试题已不符合英语尤其是美国英语的实际使用情况，应加以改进，见 。
illegal/unlawful 见 legal
illegible/eligible 见 eligible
illicit/elicit 见 elicit