An attributive noun functions as an adjective.

定语性名词起词作用。

Bankers have described the supertax as confirmation of the UK's hostility to finance.

银行家，附加税证实了英国对金融业的敌意。

Describes young wines with an earthy or stemmy wild berry character.

年轻的葡萄酒带有的泥土味或带茎的野生浆果特征。

The beauty of a sunset is ineffable.

日落的是难的。

The unspeakable odour clung to the room.

一股难的气味充斥着房间散不出去。

The beauty of the scenery defied all description.

景色之难。

Unkind isn’t the word for it! I’ve never seen anyone treat an animal so cruelly!

用不友善来都不够！我从未见过有人如此残酷地对待动物！

In “the black cat”the adjective “black” modifies the noun “cat”.

在“the black cat”这一词组中, 词“black”修饰名词“cat”。

I trailed on behind, haggard and disheveled.

我疲惫不堪地落在后面，憔悴，头发蓬乱。

We can form nouns from adjectives.

我们可用词来构成名词。

Her matchless beauty is beyond description.

她那旷世双的法。

He was really touched beyond words.

他确实感动得法。

The function of an adjective is to describe or add to the meaning of a noun.

词的作用就是修饰名词。

The play was dull beyond description.

那场戏聊得难。

Will the adjective this time be grudging or admiring, cynical or affirmative, upwardly mythopoeic or downwardly Mammonite?

这回这个词是在表达勉强还是崇敬？是讽刺还是肯定？

It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.

虽然不能说绝对的难实际上，确实与贫民窟也相差几了。

The king had unspeakable majesty.

国王有法的威严。

He is unspeakably cruel.

他的残酷难。

It defies description.

那法。

Adjectives modify nouns.

词修饰名词。