英语复合形容词的构成方法（详细且例句丰富）

二、表示度量等的复合形容词

基数词可与名词 (一般用单数) 构成复合形容词表示时间、度量等，例如：

1. 年龄。如：

The marrow donor is her 14-month-old sister. 骨髓捐献者是她14个月大的妹妹。

She was charged with abducting a six-month-old child. 她被控诱拐一个6个月大的孩子。

I don’t think most nine-year-old children have their teeth brushed. 我想大多数9岁的孩子不会让别人帮着刷牙。

She didn’t want her fourteen-year-old daughter coming home at all hours of the morning. 她不希望自己14岁的女儿凌晨才回家。

2. 面积 / 体积 / 容积。如：

This model is powered by a 1.8-litre petrol engine. 这一型号用1.8 升汽油发动机驱动。

The 77,000-acre estate contains five of the highest peaks in Scotland. 7.7万英亩的私人土地上有5座苏格兰最高的山峰。

3. (持续)时间 / 距离。如：

The seven-hour armed siege at the school ended peacefully. 对这所学校的7 小时武装包围平安结束了。

Heavy fighting erupted there today after a two-day ceasefire. 在停火两天后，今天那里爆发了激烈的战斗。

NASA has started a 10-year search for extraterrestrial intelligence. 美国航空航天局已经启动了一个为期10年的寻找外星人的项目。

His salary was obscene for three 40-minute shows a week. 他一周只有3次节目，每次40分钟，但他的薪水实在高得离谱。

4. 长度 / 深度。如：

The other car had a 3-inch lower driving seat and had its engine mounted further forward. 另外一辆车的驾驶座椅低了3英寸，引擎更加靠前。

A twenty-foot steel pyramid is to be hoisted into position on top of the tower. 一个高20英尺的钢质角锥体将被吊起，安装在塔的顶部。

5. 价格 / 价值。如：

I’ll need a five-hundred-dollar retainer. 我将收取500美元的定金。

The multibillion-dollar fitness industry rakes in fat profits from our hunger to look good. 数十亿美元的健身产业利用我们的爱美之心赚取巨额利润。

7. 重量。如：

a ten-stone man 一位体重140磅的男子

a five-kilo bag of flour 一个5公斤的面粉袋

He caught a 6.28-pound salmon in the annual fishing derby at Lake Winnipesaukee. 他在温尼珀索基湖举行的一年一度的钓鱼比赛中钓到了一条重 6.28 磅的鲑鱼。

注：序数词也可以用于复合形容词。如：

The shop deals in second-hand books. 这家商店经营二手书籍。

Both players both won their first-round matches in aggressive style. 两名选手均以进攻性风格在他们的第一轮比赛中获胜。

Year after year they wheel out the same third-rate celebrities to entertain us. 年复一年，他们反复用同样的三流名演员为我们助兴。

The museum has unusually rich holdings of seventeenth-century Italian art. 这个博物馆收藏有极为丰富的17世纪意大利艺术品。