在大家备考GRE填空的时候，是不是常常有一些短语莫名其妙的出现，然后我们的处理方式往往是草草略过，基本不会花时间去认清它们的“庐山真面”，那我们现在一起来看一个常见的语法现象—后置定语。

后置定语在GRE填空题目主要以下面的三种形式出现：

名词+介词短语

名词+形容词短语

名词+不定式

这三种形式有一个共同的特点，那就是名词后面的部分都是作为后置定语来修饰前面的名词。

下面我们分类来看一些GRE题目（题目全部来自新东方GRE填空讲义）：

1.名词+介词短语

The increasein the numbers of married women employed outside the home in the twentieth century had less to do with the mechanization of housework and an increase in leisure time for these women than it did with their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the available pool of single women workers，previously，in many cases，the only women employers would hire.

在这个句子当中，of married women做后置定语修饰numbers，in the numbers做后置定语修饰increase，同样的道理，in leisure time做后置定语修饰increase，在翻译的时候，需要将定语部分放到名词前面。

2.名词+形容词短语

The history of film reflects the paradoxes inherent in the medium itself：film combines still photographs to represent continuous motion and while seeming to present life itself，can also offer impossible and dreamlike unrealities.

在这个句子当中，inherent in the medium itself这个形容词短语做名词paradoxes的后置定语。

3.名词+不定式

The unique human ability to rethink and revise our social arrangements is a weird blessing，allowing us to create systems that are as likely to ______ us as to liberate us.

A. cheer

B. shackle

C. admonish

D. educate

E. stifle

F.  enliven

此题答案为BE，题干当中的to rethink and revise是不定式做后置定语修饰前面的ability。

The ______ nature of the approval process for new drugs suggests that incentives to promote more expeditious decision making may be necessary.

A. pecuniary

B. commercial

C. arbitrary

D. sluggish

E. capricious

F. dilatory

此题答案为DF，注意题干中不定式to promote more expeditious decision making做后置定语修饰前面的名词incentives。

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