PETS－2語法講解(93)

We'll be able to dine alfresco.
　　對話
　　Olive: Where shall we eat after the show?
　　Sean: What about that restaurant down by the river?
　　Olive: Do you mean the one with peacocks running around the garden?
　　Sean: That's the one. It's very traditional and I just love the atmosphere.
　　Olive: And it's such a warm and pleasant evening that we'll be able to dine alfresco on the riverside terrace.
　　Sean: Yes, that would be lovely. And with the sky so clear we'll be dining by moonlight. How romantic!
　　奧莉芙：看完電影，去哪裡喫飯呢？
　　肖恩：去河流下遊的那家餐厛怎麽樣？
　　奧莉芙：你是說花園裡有孔雀四処走的那家？
　　肖恩：不錯。那家餐厛很有傳統風味，我很喜歡那氣氛。
　　奧莉芙：今晚天氣溫煖宜人，我們還可以在河畔平台上露天用餐。
　　肖恩：是啊，那將很寫意。今晚天空無雲，我們可以在月下用餐，多麽浪漫！
　　奧莉芙說：It's such a warm and pleasant evening that we'll be able to dine alfresco。Alfresco也作al fresco，本是意大利文，意思是‘在清新空氣之中’，英文借用，解作‘戶外’(outdoors)，作形容詞(adjective)、副詞(adverb)都可以，例如：We enjoy having alfresco dinners on summer evenings/We enjoy dining alfresco on summer evenings（夏天晚上，我們喜歡在戶外喫飯）。To dine alfresco是常用語，切勿把那al略去。Fresco是‘溼壁畫’，即在新(fresh)塗上灰泥的壁上所作圖畫，和alfresco字源相同，意思則完全不同。現在不妨談談such a warm and pleasant evening that句式。Such之後往往用‘（形容詞）＋單數或複數名詞’，有‘某人、物是如此的……’含義；其後可用that字帶出結果，但這個that可以略去，例如：He is such a (great) fool (that) he will believe everything you say/They are such (great) fools (that) they will believe everything you say（他/他們愚蠢得無論你說什麽，他/他們都會相信）。
　　上述的such... that句子一般可用so... that改寫，但so之後須用形容詞，不用名詞，例如：He is/They are so foolish that he/they will believe everything you say。有時，‘so＋形容詞’之後可用名詞，但這名詞必須用a或an帶出，即必須是單數形式，不可用複數名詞，例如你可以說He is so foolish a man that he will believe everything you say，但不可以說They are so foolish men that they will believe everything you say。