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名词转化为动词是现代英语中极为普遍的现象,但数词转化为动词,也许就鲜为人知了。 根据1988—1989年笔者在美任教期间的调查,特别是近几年来的研究,得出了如下初步结论: 就文体而言,绝大部分由数词转化的动词或动词词组都属于俚语,而这些俚语通常是由数词或数词词组用连字号连接起来的名词或复合名词、形容词或复合形容词转化为动词或动词词组的。就出现时间而言,数词动词化现象多半出现于第二次世界大战以后,特别是本世纪五六十年代。这些数词动词化的俚语,通俗上口、生动活泼,已升级为口语或非正式词语,
The conversion of nouns into verbs is an extremely common phenomenon in modern English, but the conversion of nouns into verbs may not be well known. According to the survey conducted by the author in the United States during 1988-1989, especially the researches in recent years, the following preliminary conclusions are drawn: For stylistic purposes, most verbs or verb phrases converted from nouns belong to slang, and These slang are usually nouns or compound nouns, adjectives, or compound adjectives concatenated with hyphens or nouns into verbs or verb phrases. As to the appearance of time, the phenomenon of verbalization of numerals appears mostly after World War II, especially in the 1950s and 1960s. These nouns verbalized slang, popular, lively, has been upgraded to spoken or informal terms,