指示形容詞 形容詞 名詞 of 形容詞

車輪の歴史についての記述です。


According to Asko Parpola, an Indologist at the University of Helsinki in Finland, there
are linguistic reasons to believe the wheel originated with the Tripolye people of
modern-day Ukraine. That is, the words associated with wheels and wagons derive
from the language of that culture.

Parpola thinks miniature models of wheeled wagons, which are commonly found in the
Eurasian steppes, likely predated human-scale wagons. “It is striking that so many
models were made in the Tripolye culture. Such models are often thought to have been
children’s toys, but it seems more likely to me that they were miniature counterparts of
real things,” he said.

Toys or not, those popular models of old have their counterparts in today’s Hot Wheels
and miniature fire trucks. Who appreciates wheeled vehicles more fully than babies and
toddlers?

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形容詞 old を、popular と並べていないのは、指示形容詞 those があるから、
という解釈でいいでしょうか？

よろしくお願いします。

No.1 ベストアンサー 回答者： wind-sky-wind 回答日時： 2018/01/07 17:51

old の名詞用法と言えなくもないですが、

これはちょっと古い英語で
of old で「昔の」という慣用表現で残っている、
としか言いようがありません。

この回答へのお礼

>これはちょっと古い英語で
>of old で「昔の」という慣用表現

ありがとうございました！

お礼日時：2018/01/07 18:11