adjective, adverb or complement?

2008-04-13 5:37 am
I have seen a book titled 'retire young, retire rich'
I'm convinced that Hahatse is excellent in English knowledge. In oral English, adjective can be used as adverb. But is it acceptable as correct in written
English as in the above example? Or are 'young' and 'rich' used as complements and 'retire' as linking verb? 'Retire' itself is complete in meaning, isn't it?
Hope to hear from Hahatse or other experts.

回答 (1)

2008-04-13 6:33 am
✔ 最佳答案
朋友,首先我要說明我的英文並不是太好,我只不過對它產生深厚的興趣,並且在某程度上我實是一個利他主義者(altruist),幫到人我就感到快樂,所以,我會在每一條問題上,按自己的知識,並盡力去找尋資料解答而已。
回到你的問題,廣告、書本的標題等,為了節省篇幅或突出重點,通常會省略許多應有的字,如冠詞、作主詞或賓語的代詞,be及其變化形,和介詞等等
我並未看過你的那本書,所以,並不能準確從內容推斷題目的意思,但估計大約是
(you can) retire (and you are) young, (you can) retire (and you are) rich.

(When you) retire (, you are) young (and when you) retire (,you are) rich.
不要括號的字,就變成retire young, retire rich(你可又年青又有錢時,退休)(常你退休時,你可又年青又有錢)
不知我估計是否準確,但希望也幫到你!

2010-10-22 13:51:07 補充:
經過考查後

retire這動詞與break( loose)(掙脫束縛)、 die/ marry( young)(年紀輕輕就去世/結婚)、 stand/ sit/ lie( motionless/ still)(紋絲不動的站着/坐着/躺着)、 fall( quiet/ asleep/ ill)(靜下來/入睡/生病)等。此外, look(看來)、 sound(聽來)、 taste(有……味道)、 smell(有……氣味)等說感觀的動詞,其後也常用形容詞

但young,rich這些形容詞是用來修飾主詞,而非動詞


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