你說得對,25是指William老婆的年齡.。' his wife of 25 years(old)' 代替了
' his 25 year-old wife '。
William recently divorced his wife of 25 years.句子的文法結構分析如下:
William是句子的主詞(subject), divorced是句子的及物動詞(transitive verb),
recently是形容這句動詞divorced的副詞(adverb), his在這裏是個人代名詞
(personal pronoun)用作物主形容詞(possessive adjective如 my, their, her,
his等), wife是句子的受詞或賓詞(object), of 是介詞(preposition);而在這句子
中和25 years加起來成了一個形容詞組' of 25 years ' 用以形容wife了。