1）定义：定语是用来修饰、限定、说明名词或代词的品质与特征的。定语的位置一般有两种：用在所修饰词之前的叫前置定语，用在所修饰词之后的叫后置定语。
2）识别
3）处理

后置定语中文示例：
1.楚人有涉江者《刻舟求剑》
2.村中少年好事者《黔之驴》
3.马之千里者 《马说》

后置定语英文示例：
1.A man of his word
2.The way to heaven
3.The guy you love

长难句试读
问题 对策
例1: I’m part of a tribe of women uncovered by social researcher Wednesday Martin in her book “ Primates of Park Avenue ” (about well-to-do mothers in Manhattan), and discussed by Celia Walden in the Telegraph earlier this week, who, while not going out to work in an office or for a company, still receive a bonus from their husband at the end of the financial year as a sign of appreciation for services rendered.

长难句阅读障碍消除之：定语
后置定语： n + 定语
1）定义
2）识别
3）处理

后置定语如何识别：
1. N + adj 短语 A man committed to his goal will succeed.
2. N + 现在分词短语 A man fighting for his dream is cute.
3. N + 过去分词短语 The guy tortured by enemy didn’t say a word.
4. N + 介词短语 in the name of god
5. N + 不定式短语 Time to say goodbye
6. N + 表语形容词 A dog alive
7. 不定代词 + adj. Nothing serious
8. N + 定语从句 Love the way you lie

长难句阅读障碍消除之：定语
定语从句
1）定义
2）识别
3）处理

结构：
1.名词 + 【连接词 + 句子】 + 谓语
2.名词 + 谓语 + 名词 +【连接词 + 句子】


备注：
1.in that 等于 because
2. 定语从句引导词没有what
长难句阅读障碍消除之：定语

定语从句
1）定义
2）识别
3）处理
例1：Those [who make most people happy] are the happiest in the world.
Those who find faults with others often lose their glamour

例2： The dictionary is the only place [where success comes before work].


例3： On the rare occasion [when a fine piece of sculpture was desired], Americans turned to foreign sculptors, as in the 1770s [when the cities of New York and Charleston, South Carolina, commissioned the Englishman Joseph Wilton to make marble statues of William Pitt].

例4. If ever the earth has beheld a system of administration which is conducted with a single and steadfast eye to the general interest and happiness of those who are committed to it, one which, protected by truth, can never known reproach, it is that to which our lives have been devoted.

长难句阅读障碍消除之：定语
定语从句
1）定义
2）识别
3）处理

分三步：
1. 找连接词
2. 确定从句和修饰修饰
3. 拆分---还原变简单句。
例1: The panel has not yet reached agreement on a crucial question, however, whether to recommend legislation［that would make it a crime for private funding to be used for human cloning］.

例2： Furthermore, humans have the ability to modify the environment in which they live, thus subjecting all other life forms to their own peculiar ideas and fancies.

例3: In Australia where an aging populations, life extending technology and changing community attitudes have played their part--- other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia. In the US and Canada, where the right to die movement is gathering strength, observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling.

例4: Pearson has pieced together the work of hundreds of researchers around the world to produce a unique millennium technology calendar that gives the latest dates when we can expect hundreds of key breakthroughs and discoveries to take place.

定语部分知识程度检验

小试牛刀

1.There are numerous unsubstantiated reports that natural vitamins are superior to synthetic ones, that fertilized eggs are nutritionally superior to unfertilized eggs, that untreated grains are better than fumigated grains and the like.

排除词汇干扰：
1）unsubstantiated [,ʌnsəb‘stænʃieitid] adj. 未经证实的；
2）synthetic [sin‘θetik] adj.合成的，人造的；
3）fertilized [‘fə:rtilaizd] adj.受精的
4）fumigate [‘fju:miɡeit] v.用烟熏消毒

2.The new accessibility of land around the periphery of almost every major city sparked an explosion of real estate development and fueled what we now know as urban sprawl.

排除词汇干扰：
1）periphery [pə‘rifəri] n.外围，边缘；
2）spark [spɑ:k] v.激发，引起
3）sprawl [sprɔ:l] n.蔓延